[The touch, however small is comforting. He is a stranger, yes, and perhaps even a dangerous one but for a moment that simple gesture centres her and drags her mind back from the shadow. She glances at Set for less than a heartbeat, the smallest smile tugging at the corners of her mouth before Thoth speaks and drags her attention back to him.]

Perhaps it is so. I am glad you have no monsters. I have never known a life without them. Even the centuries of safety that Melian gave us all, we knew the shadow lingered in the lands above us. We were safe, but never fully at peace.