"Even though you were betrayed and sabotaged, you cannot blame them?"

It sounds to her as though he should have every reason to blame someone else. To seek vengeance or some recompense. Hazel has walked the Earth for two thousand some years. She knows that tone of voice. When she is human, she wishes she didn't.

As she is now, Hazel merely bends down to gently scoop up the magpie if it will let her as she gently brushes down its feathery head in as soothing a gesture as she can give. Death comes for everyone in one way or another.

"You have access to the Nexus, little one. Need you go through with the path you already know the end to?"