"Hey, Emil, not all at once." Who knows if he could hear her mouth twitching as she tried not to laugh, but that was definitely happening. Talking non-stop was just something he did when he was happy, wasn't it. It definitely made their camping more tolerable, when all of her stories were retellings of kicking monsters' asses. There were only so many ways that could go. But enough of that, she had a reputation to maintain.

But now that he mentioned it, this place was a lot colder, even than the Aerie. "Inside where? And what do you mean, the sun... and magic..." where does she even start.

"What exactly is this place, if it's really not the Shadowlord's castle?"