Ankyra Sound meanwhile, buster was waiting in the hallway.

Whittier was totally lost with this chick. He had never heard the term "land-lubber" and couldn't really follow when she kept saying "ye". Even so, he went ahead and nodded when she asked, recognizing it as a question simply by her inflection. It was pure luck that he wasn't lying when he agreed to whatever she was calling him.

"I've been looking for my sister, and just happened to find my brother here instead," Whit explained, his gaze shifting inland as he began to contemplate his exit from this conversation, "Joru--Kjalarr, I mean. He's my brother."