"I can't imagine it." It doesn't sound plausible, but then, the Astral Sea was just that, wasn't it? Supposedly. More interesting to him was her tone. His expression softens. "You miss it. I can imagine such sights and freedoms would be hard to be parted from."

Garner opens the biscuits and pulls a stack out. "We'll use these for a lesson...and then we'll eat them." He arranges them into smaller stacks of one and two, expression all the more gentle as his thoughts run their course. He thinks of what she's missing...and what he's missing. And the last time he had to teach anyone basic survival. "I know how to manage for one, two, and four and beyond that is extrapolation. I've spent the last month travelling with other nobility who have never had to fend for themselves before and a city girl who had resources at hand previously. It is not so different."