He nodded as she explained how the glass buildings were constructed. "If only we were somewhere that had innumerate books on such subjects," he deadpanned, and then looked at the new side of the map.
The details on it were very impressive - the mountains he had only seen as a distant haze beyond the forests surrounding the city, individual buildings, all manner of places with strange names ("Weyr" and "Hometree" and suchlike). He concentrated on the area Izzy was pointing at, though. "That is a large distance, n'est-ce pas? Did you come by horse?" he asked, "or do carriages run by themselves now?" He was entirely serious.