[Kamala feels cold. This man is providing details that line up with what Matthias told her. The best liars always give a version of the truth, don't they? She learned that lesson hard once. She is going to need more information about what happened and Ellethia. For now, Kamala stays present in the conversation. Her voice is deceptively calm. She's numb because it's the only way she can cope with knowing where this goes.

Wahleed died protecting her. Her family was nearly wiped out. Her great-grandmother died senselessly. She wonders if she just doomed her beloved friends to face the same fate when this inevitably reaches a conflict.]

He did forget to mention it. [That's why she can start to accept this was another game.] That he used to hunt relics. That he was like some magician, a scientist person. He was good friends with that dragon. Mostly? He just seemed sad. Like something broke inside him and he was just barely keeping it together. I felt sorry for him. I still do even if he was just trying to get me to do what he wanted. Something is seriously wrong with him. I just thought it was grief. He really missed his daughter.