There's a power in stories and in telling them just right, witches of the wild know just how to do it, hopefully sticking to the correct side of insufferable.

"Well, well," she has seen the rifters in passing but she hasn't had the opportunity to speak with one, until now it seems. "Tis miraculous even one of you survived such a journey, even those who are prepared can risk a great deal and with the connection to the Fade, with a piece of magic lodged within you...has anyone told you of what happened the last time souls dared to venture physically into the Fade? If that is indeed what any of you did, even I am uncertain as to the specifics of how any of you came to be here." Something she would like to look into and he has a very good point about the holes in the sky though inconvenient seems to be the very least of it. "Truly? I had more books in the wilds than aught else, though I would caution you not to bring up how Orlesians speak, much depends on the current fashion there and every word can be a game."