Thunder Dome a place like magic

Themiscyra;
never before has she heard of such a place. Chimerical consonants; the firebrand continues, waxing prosaic about his birth on a bayou and its secluded sands ... until, of course said Nereids sought to lay waste and take some manner of claim. It was not an unknown thing to her, the taking of captives and the keeping of hostages as political leverage; though her birth haven had not practiced such customs themselves  (perhaps the term was simply reduced to those inanely adamant to treatment),  she had had to study of it all the same; of its machinations, if ever she were meant to unveil as heiress and enter ladyship.

But perhaps what Aiolos speaks of is something entirely different — something not entirely captive, yet allowed no such freedoms as to be trusted without several eyes upon him. She does not know, and so instead inquires,  "What sort of training, might I ask?"  Features ponderous and still, for now.