Q'uila laughed, ears forward and tail swishing happily. She'd missed his particular brand of depreciating wit. "Clearly you haven't spent any length of time in Lominsa, otherwise you would have realised that the brine just makes language worse."

Her smile softens. "Glad to see you're all in one piece though. We've all been a bit worried." She scowls playfully and wags her finger at him. "Write a little more often, especially to Alphinaud."