"Fine. I will remember to treat her as anyone else and not as someone special." It is a perfectly reasonable thing to ask, and Istredd can't argue that it has set her off when he did otherwise. When his awe of her and the things she could do made her seem too important to handle. If Ciri doesn't feel comfortable on a pedestal, he'll do his best to knock it down.

Part of his hesitance about being around her is concern it will be obvious she means something to him. His awkward politeness will be the best defense against people who know him well. He dreads the idea of being around her and Lucifer at the same time.

The Brotherhood is very quick to discard. They practically made a rule out of it. The young mages generations after generations simply continuing to be their eyes and hands.

"I don't know, I have no idea what the answers are. It depends on how much harm we're looking at, by the Singularity or supporting it. Until recently we were wrong about the monoliths. This sphere doesn't understand the Singularity in the same way, but only Ciri has a connection to the monoliths. We all have a chance here." Each and every one of them has a tie to the Singularity, some of them stronger than others, Rhy for example, but they have more potential.

"How the gods factor in, I'm still working on it. Kyle from Thorne has a theory. He thinks that the newer gods may have been the former Summoned, from thousands of years ago. If that's true we'd be looking at our own future, and the power within to accomplish it." This is definitely just a theory Kyle has brought up and the two of them have discussed.