And you more traveled than I, I assume. I have only gone where the fighting was thickest, and briefly to Ash but hardly to sight-see.

[It had a way of making one feel small, this new world, and that was saying something for the Dominant of Bahamut.]

All of Twinside would fit upon Eltrut's shell, to be sure. [A ghost of something like pain crosses his features at the mention of the place, and also something else occurs to him. Unless he's told her before, Twinside was the capital of the Crystalline Dominion in her memory. What use would a prince of Sanbreque need for referring to it?]