"The runes are something. I've seen them before, but I never had any way of knowing what they meant. Some scholars here in the lowlands study them, but it's all a bit beyond me." Maybe the Avvar feel similarly about the Orlesian texts they trade for, a sort of aesthetic appreciation if nothing else. He finds it interesting that they'd want them.

He's also not completely sure how the second part of her statement follows from the first. "I don't know what you mean by that. What does being a messenger to the gods entail?"