**
Ember personally made her way to the prison hold that kept Nada and Calyx.
To her relief, they hadn't been tortured yet. They looked gaunt in certain places probably from lack of sleep, but aside from that, they looked fine.
She quickly unlocked the cell, rushing inside. "Are both of you fine?" She inquired, but they only stared at her wide-eyed, saying nothing as though they had been stupefied from hours spent in the dark holding place.
It was Nada who broke the silence first as tears streamed down her face. "You look well and fine, Princess," she wailed, "throughout the night, I imagined the worst happened to you."
Ember stared at the both of them strangely, realizing that it was worry for herself that had them looking like ghosts, and not worry for themselves. Their act of selflessness when she was certainly undeserving of it threatened to send tears to her eyes, but she swallowed it down.
