"Ah, there you are. You've been floating for awhile." Quite nicely too. Without missing a beat Zevran offers a skin of water- all that sweat, all those tears? It'd be easy to become dehydrated if left alone. Cade seems well enough to hold the skin on his own. "You see why I said you should take something afterward? Forty lashes, Cade, I have never done that with someone on their first time with that Cat."

Pride and warmth curl in his voice- he is proud of Cade for standing up against that sting, for finding that safe, quiet place within himself and drifting. It's magnificent.