He's genuinely surprised when he turns to her voice. "You're still in Thorne," he says, not a fault towards her just--he's maybe been avoiding her, like he's been avoiding Istredd, and Wanda, and Michael.

He shakes his thoughts away, catching the scrawl of Kyle's message on a wall. Maybe it shouldn't be a surprise that she didn't join the others in Solvunn.

"It might be nothing," he warns her, because him and Kyle are Team Paranoia at this point and he doesn't need to get her hopes up, while they're trying to maintain their own. "But there's an illusion up north, around the peninsula."

It's been a long, long two weeks. Lucifer's gotten more human blood on his hands in this period of time than he has in his entirety of being in Abraxas, for one.

"It's not Academic magic, I know that much, but I can't dispel it. I thought maybe some of the students might not be so locked into Academic to be able to figure out what it is and break it down." But if Yennefer's here...