"Many thousands can fit in there if we share rooms, but right now there are perhaps several hundred people living inside." The castle is a pleasant sight on a pleasant day, she feels, but from her glance down she can see that this is no match for whatever rainbow shimmering air castle he must have lived in before arriving here.

"This was built long ago, long before any humans you see now were born, but I am sure this took hundreds of humans to build." She strokes the top of his head, caught once again by curiosity. "How long do Asandus live? I am twenty-two and if I am a lucky woman I will live to be a hundred."