"Perhaps the same reason that I am here instead of the Cloud Recesses," he'd been there, after all, only a short time before. "I had left the edge of how war I could go and when I tried to go back..."

Well, now he's here.

He nods and continues to follow, looking around as they walk. The Lotus Pier he remembers, before it burned, looked much like this but there are difference too. He's awed at them, cannot hide it as he glances around. "How long did it take to rebuild?" he asks as they walk, then feels a panic run through him -- perhaps that is the wrong question to ask.