Kal considers replying to Peters' elliptical statement, but lets Floral and Helios speak instead.

"She reminds me of prophets and muses I have met before," Ariadne says into Kal's thoughts, dryly. "You want to go left, first you have to go right. You wish for the sun, you might end up with the moon." Kal, in her mind's ear, hears the clicking of a tongue. "If I wanted riddles, I would ask a sphinx."