Radimir's silence was agreement, and he sat back and instead doused his face with the water, cooling himself off. He too, thought, they were free, that they could finally escape this place and make a life for themselves. And somehow they ended up back to all the places that connected them. Radimir felt shame then, for his actions, what he did to jeopardize what she had with another man. Though he was a man that did not love her, he interfered all the same.
What good could he have brought Zarrah? He promised to venture off with her, to help her, save her from the darkness that surrounded them. And yet here they were once again, insects beneath the burning glare of gods gone mad.
"It's my fault," he said, looking out towards the raining waters that continued to pour forth from the outside of the cave entrance. "I ruined just about everything good you had going for you, didn't I? I mean...when we met, it wasn't exactly under honest pretenses. It was all a lie..."