Oh, she would have liked to look unimpressed by the display. She really would have. She kept that blase, half-disinterested and unaffected look on her face a lot of days. That wasn't happening once they were transported. Her eyes were shocked, visibly. She caught sight of everything, the pool taking her interest as much as the books. She almost wasted a question on several things.

And then she schooled herself. One step at a time. She had to visibly calm before nodding.

"Thiazi has stolen and captured a god's soul before. It stands to reason she can again," she said, looking back at him and focusing on his eyes. Her lips pursed a little as she kept carefully to the question she had and tried to avoid speaking about anything outside it.

"In what way exactly can it be ensured that, should she, Surt or an ally of theirs of similar nature fall that their soul not be caught by her, trapped and either used or resurrected, leaving us at square one?"