Reynir sees Ami's horror, and the despair inside him gets a bit blacker. He assumes she is covering her mouth in horror because she has just seen, for the first time, the last stage in the transformation she herself is undergoing. It might not be happening in the way that it happens in Reynir's world, but he still thinks this is happening to her.

He is so horrified over having re-watched that scene that it doesn't occur to him, at first, that Ami has no way of knowing Tuuri's name. Because the question she asks is heart-breaking, and Reynir immediately hangs his head, eyes closing against the pain of it.

"No." His voice breaks on that one, awful syllable. "She wasn't."

He slumps back against the wall of the vehicle, a little surprised himself when his legs give out and he slides all the way down to the floor. At least that means he can rest his head against his knees.

"She got infected. We weren't sure for a few days, but. She did."

It should have been him. It shouldn't have been her. It was like a mistake - there shouldn't be a world where Tuuri dying was something that really happened. It should have been him.

"She killed herself. As soon as she knew. Before she could start to change."

She hadn't even said goodbye to him.