[Gabranth isn't sure just what he's doing on another beach, nor why this one has apparently seen fit to discard his swords and armor. Nor is he fully aware of whatever "scavenger hunt" he's been expected to participate in; no, there are far greater things weighing on his mind
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What happened? I've never seen you look so unthreatening.
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All I have gained in this world has been lost to me.
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[Tucks away his knife and his carving and pulls his glove back on, sliding off the rocks to join Gabranth by the sea]
Elaborate. As specific or as vague as you want, but tell me, all the same.
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... Those who were trapped in the towers will not be returned to us.
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This world likes to toy with our minds. Because somebody is gone today, it does not follow they will be gone tomorrow.
[Offers a small smile]
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If that does not follow, then where is she now?
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We can't know. If Rodney was right and this world is a construct, an illusion, then perhaps she was taken out of the illusion for a while. Or perhaps all the worlds we've been to exist in parallel, and she's out of sync.
[Bends again to pick up another couple of stones without dropping the one he's got, and starts juggling them properly, absent-mindedly]
Perhaps she's here, and we can't see her. Perhaps she's outside the time we're in. Perhaps she and the others have been sent to a different world, there to await release. When I'm in this world I can't tell what might happen. It's like being blindfolded. But that doesn't mean I can't guess.
[Closes his eyes and speeds up the juggling]
You shouldn't stop hoping. Fate has the strangest ways of bringing people back together.
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