Many thanks, my dear!! They definitely knew what they were up to during the aruna— well, Jaffa and Firethorn were, but Vaysh really didn't get it until it was too late and he realized the cost. Even then, though, he played his part.

I could see him in my mind's eye with Yazdyar, and eyes (I admit it!) inspired by Jared Leto. ;) We don't really have a sense of Wraeththu genetics, so perhaps the eyes are a recessive gene, though given Firethorn's Chickasaw background, that's pretty unlikely.

I ache for Vaysh every single day. But I'm still going to cry and mourn for him when this story is done, though I'll be free from his spell, at least within this context. He is truly broken, a feeling I know well. Probably why it comes across so effectively!!