Everybody wants something from me now

Tell me.
The same words he had given Deathbelle, when she had returned alone from the vulcano.
Tell me he had demanded. Soft, but unyielding.
Tell me he has whispered, as she tore at him in anger and sorrow, until she had found the words to share her loss. He had tried to be there for her, thinking he understood. Realising now he hadn’t even been close.

“She’s gone.”
He closed his eyes, and hung his head, hearing the failure in his own words. Who had Deathbelle lost now? He knew through Recluse that Magnus had not returned to her. So who?

"Speech"