...Unbelievable. Her behavior certainly doesn't help him resolve his already complex feelings about her presence. Still... he can see no reason to make her unhappy, or to deny her such a tale. It was one worth being told, after all.

"Aye. One of us that came to your doorstep... Alisaie. She was the first to find a way to cure those that had been enslaved. With the magicks she employed, she could unbind them from the primal's will... and, in turn, break the cycle that fueled the summonings of gods that thirsted for servitude."

He leans back, looking upward.

"It had been unthinkable for so long. Those made into thralls were considered as good as dead. But then, suddenly... there was hope. Lives spared that otherwise would have been lost."