[ Boss BGM plays ]

Colonel... The body is already cold.

[ she lifts her gaze to meet his eyes now, and there's something
of a sense of anger there: at being pressured like this by him, at being
so heavily scrutinized.

but also, because he was denying something that was an actual truth --
something beyond her fault, her control, at least. no healer can bring
the dead back to life. after everything, a necromancer should
know that.

for a moment she doesn't speak, not until the anger wanes into a more
resigned sort of sigh, a slight softening of her features.

of course he would be upset. his friend did just die ...
she can sympathize with that. ]

I can't raise the dead... So yes, I don't think there's anything
more that I can do for her. I'm sorry, to both you and to Yuuki.
But there really isn't anything I can do. I just ... I wish I could have
gotten here sooner.

[ her hands twine in her lap, as she overlooks rita's body again.
she still thinks that it's a shame -- the magic this body can use would
have been really useful. she already knows some people are pissed about
her throwing away that opportunity, too ...

but what's done is done. ]