"I saw." Thankfully, most non-Wardens don't know what that necklace is. Any Wardens would have sensed her by the taint anyway. He starts to pull the bread apart with his fingers and dip it into the stew. Stew which probably has remnants of food from the past fortnight, but it's hot and it's edible.

"How are you holding up?" Nathaniel has had a keen brotherly instinct over Bethany since she joined. He remembers how bitter and resentful he was when he became a Warden, and wanted her to have someone who could help her through that difficult time of adjusting to a strange and unwanted life.