Eric emerges from the café, glad to see that the couple he has helped are still waiting for him outside by their table.

The writer gives life to a story, the reader keeps it alive.
Eric emerges from the café, glad to see that the couple he has helped are still waiting for him outside by their table.
The Guild Master’s General had transported Katherine from the cart, and both of them watch from a distance, phased between matter and energy, so that Xan and Edith, and the unsuspecting Eric cannot see they are witnesses to Eric’s poisoning.