Estinien also has his turn to be surprised. For him, though, it manifests more of a furrowing of his brow and a beat of silence as he tried to work out the meaning of it in his head.

"Bodies?" he repeats. "Of arrivals like us?"

For a moment he wonders if she means they had, for some reason, been slaying those that came from the shrine. At the one he emerged from, there hadn't been anyone present but their captors.