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Three years in series. And I don't think it's just because the author can't be assed.
On the one hand as this chapter highlights, they weren't actually friends. Priestess signed up to be an adventurer and joined their party mostly by virtue of them being the first to ask when she was looking for a party. That was mid-morning, and by mid-afternoon two of them were dead and Fighter had been beaten in raped by goblins. The short time their party existed in between was mostly them walking to the cave without much talking, with Fighter mostly paying attention to Warrior judging by how things went in the cave. So while Priestess feels survivor guilt and still thinks about them, the fact remains that they're just people who started the same job the same day as her, and immediately got crippled or killed by a combination of bad luck and bad decisions. So Priestess not taking the time to visit a veritable stranger makes sense.
On the other hand, as it stands Fighter basically serves as a name and face for all the goblin raped women who didn't recover and move on with their lives like Sword Maiden, Female Merchant, or Speargirl. If Priestess visited, the author would have to either show Fighter recovering taking away the face of all the less fortunate goblin survivors, or cement that Fighter's spirit is broken, she won't recover, and will spend the rest of her life cloistered somewhere safe. The first the author doesn't want to do, and the second the readers don't want the author to do.
