Siorus twists and lifts his head a little to look at her, smiles, and lies back down flat. Sure, they can talk about that.

"This is the first I've ever seen it," he admits. "I thought it'd be bigger."

It is bigger, of course, than the narrow strip of the Waking Sea he crossed to reach Kirkwall from West Hill. But that's the strip he crossed, and now, in Kirkwall's harbor, the city looks near enough to make a swim for it, if he had to.