Lillian scowls a little into her cup, not at Gustavain, but because all of these questions with no simple answers. (And boy, it's a good thing he does not bring up children, because that hadn't occurred to her and they don't need her stomping back out into the cold and snow to try and find and rescue the ones that had to exist.)

"It doesn't make any sense," she grumbles, but she'll still drink her tea. It wouldn't be any good to waste it. As for the link pearl, attached towards the back of her horn, she shakes her head. "No, nothing for a while now. Maybe the tower's screwing that up, too." Her attunement to aether is... not great, but everything just feels wrong with those towers.