There were three things Constantine was sure of as he found shelter inside a cave from the incoming winter storm surge.
First: Avi was not sentimental. She had no softness in her at all. But this also meant she was dispassionate toward him in all the ways that could possibly matter, so she bore no grudge against him either except on account of his so-called weakness. (He didn't like being called weak, but what the hell was he supposed to say when standing in front of someone who made her life in the heretofore uninhabitable parts of the Rohnbarr peaks?) This also meant that whatever warning she had given him was true, and that she genuinely wanted him to shuck off whatever weakness was afflicting him - for her satisfaction.
Second: The thing she had warned him about in the first place,
