[He did wonder where her name had gone on the network, but she showed back up so quickly he'd honestly thought he might have just overlooked her. Guess that answers that.]

We can accommodate, Cecily. You're not the first of us trying to handle patrols with a handicap, and I doubt you'll be the last. Doesn't mean you're any less helpful to us, especially when we need eyes and ears on every island.

[After all, would he be considered useless now that he's back walking with a cane? Not as good in a fight, sure, but not worthless -- and he hears that tone in her voice, the sort of self-doubt that poisons a person, weighs them down. He fights it himself sometimes.]

But if you want someone to walk with you for a while until you adjust, I wouldn't mind company.