Rezo likewise tenses when he hears that distant screech, only relaxing when it becomes apparent that it isn’t going to come closer. Lioriley’s the one carrying the cotton, after all.

It does sound exhausting. And terrifying, to be on either end of such an intense psychic connection. Moreover it sounds as if simple homesickness isn’t the average voidtrecker’s primary motivation for returning to their own world. Which makes him curious…

“Why did you not wish to return to your own world?”