"Thev-veh-nay," he corrects without apparent judgment. Strange may be especially bad with languages, but he's hardly the only non-Nevarran to struggle with them either. What comes less easily is the answer to what about her, it seems. Since they'd been talking about his connections, he starts with: "She and I have been well-acquainted for many years. Long before the Mage-Templar War. We write, some, now."

(In no small part because if he stopped, he assumes she'd show up and demand to know why, but that is not information he assumes is especially useful to Strange.)

"Do you know much about the Mortalitasi as a group? What they do, their reputation?"