"Cause I'm not."

"You are not! It's endearing."

"It is unclear to me if Maitimo finds it so!"

"I have no insight there."

"Didn't think so."

"Oh well. If you don't know I'm not sure who would."

"I mean, I actually don't pay nearly as much attention to them as most people. But I don't want to ask most people, either."

"Yeah."

And they continue their winding way south. He occasionally makes detours for pretty waterfalls or excellent forests.

Wow. This is so much better than last time.

"How'd you two travel last time?"

"Pretty much straight there."

"That's no fun."

"I can see that now!"

"Did you two go alone?"

"Yeah."

"That's fun. Nicer than travelling supervised."

"Most things are nicer unsupervised, in my opinion."

"Depends how incompetent you are, but yeah -"

"Okay, that's fair."

"Dunno the point of living here and not learning how to move around, but lots of people'd say what's the point of living here and not being stellar at metalworking."

"Yeah."

"Which I tried."

"I can imagine."

They reach the city. It's vertical, built into cliffs that stretch so tall even Elven eyes strain to see the bottom from the top. At the top the air is terribly thin and at the bottom it is usually foggy.