[ If X'rhun notices that pause, if he chooses to read anything into it, it is only evidenced in the slight and curious tilt of one ear, as one might curiously arch an eyebrow.

But he makes no remark on it, for he figures if Markus has reservations, they'll become apparent soon enough. They may already be, with that question. ]

Over a year now. I do not recall if I've mentioned this before, but ere I came to be here, I was on a world other than my home - a place much like this city where many different people from many different worlds were being kept. 'Twas there I met Ardyn.