[ The melody continues more muted between them but plays all the same. ]

My people... We have a phrase for moments in life like this between links bound by the soul...

The serpents tail ends where its mouth begins.

[ Caoimhe says it first in elvish, then repeats it in the language that is common for them both. ]

It isn't just that endings create beginings, and beginings always have an end. It is also the idea that the cycle of all things ever churns in a circle. You may think it had ended, but what remains connected always is.

I am certain, [ She smiles a bit warmly. ] even if she feels herself wronged and does not wish to see you again. She had given back to you this gift, meaning perhaps one day. You could give it back to her again, when it is, you trust her enough that she is deserving of it. Afterall, I am sure she felt that way when the long tale of your story had happened. She must not have felt deserving of this knife.

[ The elven woman thinks longingly. ]

Or so, that is what I would like to think.