"Ah, right. This is your first time doing this, isn't it? When the ceremony is over, they push the platform into the bonfire as well. Everything burns tonight, or so they say," Nila told him.
"That sounds pretty ominous…" Beam noted.
"…It does, doesn't it? Mm, I guess it's my first time noticing that. It's just what people say, y'know," Nila said. "How have things been, anyway? You don't seem to have any scratches on you, but it's hard to tell, 'cos you're always hiding them under your clothes."
"I wanted to ask much the same question," Mrs Felder said. "You haven't come to me for treatment once in the soldiers' camp, despite all the work they're putting on you."
"They're working him that hard?" Nila said, a clear frown on her face.
