[Leslie is aware that there is no way to know how possible this is to succeed. She’s heard rumours and theories about how things might be for a Mirrorbound when they return to their world, but no one really understands what the mirrors can or will do.]

[Even so, Hubert’s words bring some small relief into the mess of emotions currently swirling inside her. When she meets his gaze again, she gives him a shaky, small, but genuine smile.]

Thank you. [But with everything going on, she can’t maintain the smile for long.] It might take me some time to write it, or decide what I need to say, or things like that, but I will tell you when I have written it.

[She fiddles her thumbs a little in her clasped hands, feeling a little awkward (among the many, many other feelings). Though she expects he will not give an answer to his own question, she wants to ask:]

Is there....

[If she asks him as Marquis Vestra, she wonders if that formal distance might give him even more reason to deflect, so for once, she changes the way she addresses him deliberately.]

Is there anything you need, Hubert?