"And I none of your attendance," Eula counters, voice dry. "Fortunate for you that it seems this ship of mirrors calls us all from all subtly different places - I've already met one young man in whose world I did not survive my brother."

Exact meanings are for flying in the air like the lanterns released in Far Eastern New Year's celebrations - once released, they quickly grow too distant to see clearly.

"But if you must know - formally, when Lyse Hext retired from that same position to rebuild her nation. Informally, I travelled with Alisaie for some time prior to that."