Only memories and dreams sustain him, and he floats. Once there were jokes and adventures, but now just paper. Written from two perspectives, this story starts a year after The Reichenbach Falls. This is a tale of two men coming home.

Night at the Warren holds only meaningless pain, and Rat will do anything to break Azoth. Jarl knows all this, but he'll do anything to save his only friend from this hellhole. TRIGGER WARNINGS for rape. Implied one-sided, unrequited Jarl/Azoth.