Just watching her he can see that she hasn't fully figured out the answers to his questions until he asked them. Maybe she blocked the memories. It isn't clear from her explanation if she was floating in the water, or if it held her underneath and somehow prevented her from drowning.

He hasn't gone into the lake himself, so he can't fully relate to the experience, but he was briefly entranced by the voices coming from the woods that he doesn't doubt would have brought him there. They always happen at night and by morning everything is calm again. This is the first time he's heard of anyone being put there by force.

"It's a long story, but the short answer is no." He sighs, knowing that he's going to be obsessing over this new bit of information that will likely get him nowhere. He's considerate enough to run through the truncated version that doesn't really explain what happened to her. "If you've heard of the warlords, it has to do with Anurr. The body in the lake supposedly belonged to his predecessor who was drowned by his own people."

If that's really true or not, it's impossible to say. He can only confirm to what he's seen with his own eyes.

"They've been investigating it since we got here."