( He's silent longer than he should be. It betrays him, and he's already at disadvantage, knows that — knows strangers can't be trusted, it's always the way.

Could be a man of Taravast, this one. Could be anyone. Could be a dream, and if Zenobius blinks, then he's in the tower again, running, and — )

...that so? Must have been gotten good, our Ellethia. Robbed blind. Raided.

( By... what, exactly? He can't say. ) Anyone from the institute standing?