"I see." Khepri studied him again for a moment as she processed the information he had shared. She arguably knew very little about them though the name wasn't entirely unfamiliar. Contracts had taken her throughout the main continents of Asia and Europe, and in the latter, she had been given the chance to learn more about the creatures that existed in this world. Until now, she thought, she had never had the opportunity of meeting one. "So it would seem. Thankfully, I do not require much to sustain me. This is likely to last me almost a week." With a slight frown, she continued. "It would have been longer had they not ruined their lungs."
As she fished through the still-angry waters for more morsels, she couldn't help but sink into an old homesickness that existed within her. Khepri was biased, that was unquestioned, but in her mind, nothing could surpass the sands of Egypt, the life-giving Nile. So much history existed there, some of it lost to the sands, and so much of her own past remained there too as if she left a piece of herself behind every time she left. "That they do. There are creatures in this world who can work wonders with a true name." Khepri had met one and only one, and she had intended to leave that encounter unique.
"One day, you must see it. You shall not be disappointed. Just as one day I hope to see the rest of this world, your homeland too." The secrets of this world were enticing to her, the knowledge that was hidden in small pockets. She had no goal to use that information, but perhaps she could, through her scholarly tour, rise herself up and out of her vengeful origins to be reborn anew. "They call me a demon, though the meaning has taken on a malevolence since the Catholics corrupted its meaning. I am no more wholly evil than I am wholly good."