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Plateaus weren't the most common piece of landscape around, but they did stick out. Unable to recall if he had ever seen such a place out that way, the best he could do was file it away. Should his journey take him westward more, he would make sure to slip by their claim with space to spare. He had done well this time to avoid places where he recalled their kin to lay claim to and thus had avoided conflict so far. But it was inevitable he would one day stumble upon it; hopefully it would be of his own accord than misfortune at the helm.

He could applaud the young man's desire to see and learn, however.

"If it's learning you want from the lands, you're welcome to accompany me for a spell," he decided to offer—perhaps against his better judgement. "I plan to go back the way I came, and I know more of the lands there than here." At least as far as how to rank them by interest; outside of Moonspear and some of their questionable neighbors, he lacked names for the territories. But that did not matter to him much, as he thought the sights enough to take in alone. Surely, he thought, he could put up with a rambunctious youth as well.