"He is that, yes," Faolan confirms. Trying not to let on how eager he is to return home to him. "A very busy man, of late, but a good one nonetheless. I fear what may have become of him, without his shadow there to remind him to take it easy on himself, every now and again. It's just as well I have only been gone the two months..."

He turns to glance down the road with her. To Treun, she says, and knowing what he does of Pod and what he does of the city, he has to wonder- "What business do you have in Treun, then, if you'll forgive me asking as much?" Curious minds and all.