The knight saw the failing and offered a hand down to the Luminary, as the boy had once done for him after he had sworn his oath. It was a very unexpected yet welcome gesture and the tiniest sliver of him had hope that the two could become friends.

But then it was Hendrik's turn to be puzzled. "Eleven. We have defeated the Lord of Shadows. And we had dropped Lord Robert off at Dundrasil along with the others." He couldn't talk about Veronica's fate.

Not yet.

"Can you not recall those events?"