"You would certainly know," he says, dry. Of the two of them, Emet-Selch certainly isn't the cheeky one, thank you; he settles into the steps just as easily in this position, though, guiding while seemingly giving it hardly a thought at all.

-but the question is something he does put a bit of thought into, falling silent for a few steps after it's asked.

"It often did, in the world I arrived from," is his eventual answer. "There are differences here yet. Aspects to study, variation in the workings of its magics. People, however, I tend to find the same regardless of the world they hail from-- they behave in similar ways, share similar priorities. The cycle of history in one is rarely so different from another."