[Kesara knows these words. Weren't for nothing. She thinks they ought to comfort her rather more than they do. Now she's resolved to help Jim see that comfort, though, so she decides not to think of that. If that is the best story, then that is what she'll tell.]

That's just what Kain would've said - I know it. You know it even better than me. Even if one man dies, the Game continues, it's won as long as the work is done. You're brave and Zell is brave. You'll finish the work.