In a word, yes. And traveling north with Niko took years, and these are- Niko's not so bad about it, but he is an academic mage in all senses of the word. It's like he expects it as normal. [She's starting to realize that you Get It, Saguru, and remembering that... you know... you probably won't be stupid.] I suppose it doesn't help that in catching the Ghost, the murderer in Thairos... In order to help, I learned a mostly-useless skill that hasn't been learned for several hundred years.

[Chime knows better than to bite metal, though she seems to like the coin itself.]