That's a very good question. [Ethlyn has always been wary of the dragon that's supposed to live in the caverns. Is it an ordinary thing like a wyvern, or a dragon, one of those godlike beings out of myth?] But after almost a year here, I'm not as afraid of a rumored dragon as I am of some creatures that I have actually seen.

[She steals a sidelong look at Aerith. Ethlyn recognizes her from her very beginning days at the start of the year--an intelligent young woman whom she'd inadvertently confessed her own death to. She'd gone from Aldrip some time later. And now here she is again... apparently without any idea that she was here before.

It's happened to people, Ethlyn knows that. But she's still considering what to say and do about it.]