"Too exposed?" Ishiah asks in surprise. It's not a reaction that he hears often, although upon deeper thought, Ishiah thinks he can understand where the young lady's coming from. There are things that this island is capable of doing that are indisputably private, that burrow into the mind, but somehow to Ishiah, it's always being trapped that his mind goes to first.

After countless years of being capable of telepathy, it's being chained down to the earth that the peri finds himself most unaccustomed to. Only two years, and already he feels like he hardly remembers what it's like to fly.