[ Airships. Aymeric's world had airships? Turbine engines? Maybe just biplanes. But still, the thought rocked him, as much as the idea of a moon falling. Beneath his tan, he went a little pale, brows drawn together with focus. ]

No, I want to hear about everything. We've got time, and I should know.


[ It sounded like a pole shift. And desperately, he wanted to reach for his notepad again. Had tides shifted patterns? How had compasses and other rudimentary magnets reacted?

He realized with a start that they might not be able to measure a pole shift of a few degrees. And that... something magical might also be at work, a complication or... strange interference...

But already he had the serious, focused-in expression that passed over him when he'd seized on a problem he wanted to chew on. ]

You said people can only come by air or bridge... Mountains, the terrain has to be rough, I bet... What's the nearest other center of trade? By ground, what's the distance? Do people go on foot, with horses, or... tell me what the mode of travel is, how many days a trip usually takes. Could you draw me dimensions of the bridges, later, kind've... roughly?

And um, airships, tell me what's the status of that kind of travel. Do captains need to account for storms, air currents, or have they reached altitudes above weather yet?