There's something a little unnerving about her demeanor. Something that reminds him of Jath'ibaye. Like if he were to squint and turn his head just the right way, he might see something else.

He pretends a scoff.

"Two of us? Oh, no. I'm taking a break. I'm on vacation."

He's teasing, that much is clear. He's only just talked to Claude about never being on vacation, barely knowing what one is - he doesn't really know how to rest. To not be in this mode.

But then he frowns, this time for real.

"A big if," he says. "Solvunn and Thorne were on reasonably good terms, but that was before their council member began mass kidnapping people."

Even then, moving between factions was difficult to impossible. Besides what he heard about a peace summit from before he arrived, he only knows two people who have managed it on their own.