[ Jo's shook her head, hands curled around her cup without moving it, keeping her eyes on Ciri's face. ]

No. There were some other things that happened because of contact during those weeks, but they weren't like that.

[ Things Jo would say she doesn't want to go over, but the fact she's still waking up hard and gasping from dreams of both most nights would say her subconscious couldn't care the slightest about her avoidance vote. Those not having to do with forgetting, but death, from both its ends. ]