"Yeah," Brand says, more softly than he would under any circumstances other than while watching a memory of the man who raised him. It's almost a shame that South didn't try to show him pity, at least then he could punch her and stop fucking feeling everything.

Rune's father (South might get the impression of the name "Lord Sun", the same way she got "ambergris"), passes by the two invisible watchers again, turning the light back off and closing the door behind him. The memory around them begins to fog and fade away.