[She makes a gesture at his question to nothing in particular, or to everything around them. They are still on the water and no island in sight yet—they've more time than perhaps they ever have. Which is why she listens, her gaze cast out to the water and taking gentle puffs of her pipe as she does. There's a twitch in her jaw at the mention of Odin, and of Belanus Tor. She knows that was where he had his eyes set when he sent her to Lostwing on what he had convinced her was her most important mission. Had she been at Belanus Tor instead, would things have ended differently for her? Would she and Dion gone head-to-head in the name of their kings?]

I had heard whispers of such, but I was not sure if they were true.

[About the Aether and the Akashic.]

It would not have been much longer before it all found its way right through the Capital's gates. Yet, you all abandoned the city?