Abby doesn't eat. She sits with her bowl of porridge and brings her crystal out of her pocket, fiddling slowly with it as the food goes cold. She was gonna get Ellie on and tell her to pull her head out, something like that, but she's just realised if Ellie doesn't reply it's going to freak her out, it's going to make this so, so real. She puts her crystal on the table instead, in case Clarisse reaches out.

She sits and stares off into space for she doesn't know how long and then Clarisse is there, sitting across from her, Wags at her side, sticking close. He's leaning into her while she rubs him down because he knows she needs comfort. He does that for Abby when she's upset.

Without a word, Abby pushes the bowl of untouched food across the table toward Clarisse as if she got it for her.

"Yeah." She says it instantly, the moment Clarisse's mouth shuts. "I'll go back to the tent and then I'll do a couple rounds. Yseult'll know."

She feels so strange. She feels off-balance, the same way she does whenever she's staring down over the side of a sharp drop and feeling like she's about to fall. Her voice is so, so calm. "Take Blunder," she encourages, scooping her crystal, slipping it into her pocket, getting up. "Call me in an hour."