UwU ~ Thanks for reading and thanks for the compliments!~

That’s such a beautifully concise yet complex way to explain what had happened here down to one metonymy of each significant scene. Indeed, innocent they are and still have to learn the tools of the trade here - so they shall be hugging the shores for some bit.

The staple of the Ashley-n-Saddie stories, a good thing to end stories with anyways. (That one was probably one of my favorite ending paras in a long while for terms of style and substance.)

Agreed.