Part of the trouble of checking on Reira is, she lapses into these quiets so often that it's hard to tell if something extra is amiss. But she seems to be standing and walking fine, so that's significant progress from as unconscious as she recently was.

He takes the question seriously, anyway, glancing around like the sound is floating helpfully in the air with closed captioning on it. "I... heard you talking? And maybe distant fighting."

There are those huge shapes whirling around in the sky, but they're pretty darn high up there.