Sabine is dutifully following their exchange, so she meets the High Mage's gaze head-on when it shifts to her. It wasn't unexpected, given that she probably fell directly under that for him—being unexpected.

"I have been studying under Istredd since I arrived. Magic, originally, and still, but more so, the Singularity. The importance of it to this world, and possibly all others." Her voice was calm and still. Her why considered both publically and privately so many times since she'd heard of it, especially after managing to connect to it, however limitedly. "The need to keep it safe from those who would wish it harm."

There's a small glance toward Istredd and then back. "I would very much like the chance to help him and all of you in this. I can think of no better thing worth spending my time on since coming here."

That was a truth, whole and utter. If the details were edged slightly differently. (Especially since Jack vanished, but even before that in bringing them back together somewhere.) In the why and how, and wanting to know more about exactly what kind of god-like or supernatural being it was and whether its intentions toward this planet—and others—were of the same ilk as those that had once been the focus of Earth before The Rift was sealed.