"I just learned my fourteenth secret and achieved all of my previous long-term goals, and I was going to take a month off to try out being a rich person before I figured out new ones!  And now!  I'm apparently going trekking through sewers instead!  So that's where I'm at, I don't know about you.  Life's just grand, isn't it?"

“... that doesn’t seem like a super sustainable way of thinking about being an adventurer but whatever.”

"I think it's probably more sustainable than literally being killed if I don't!  So.  - Who knows, maybe you'll win me over with your charming, charming personality, and we'll be the best of friends and I'll have nothing in my heart but deep gratitude for the workings of the weave of fate.  And also our undying friendship; gotta leave some room for that.  We'll get matching tunics embroidered with the name of our party real big across the chest so everyone knows how close we are.  - Where's your boyfriend, anyway, sleeping in?  He was . . . tolerable."

“He’s in Jade’s brain; they’re, like, a noble and stuff. And they’re not the same person at all, it’s totally a whole thing.”

He gestures with his fork towards Jade.

"Ah . . . hah.  Well.  Another new best friend.  Nice to meet you, what's your deal."

“Psion. Decent with a knife. Without Kamin I have the equivalent of eight secrets at most. Aiming to improve at psionics.”

"Well hey, what do you know, I've got a little psionics myself.  Barely any yet, though.  Trying to get telekinesis before I go for gravity mastery.  What about you."

“Solid mindscape, weak telepathy and mind control at range, omniglottalism, some self-hacking from the mindscape. Specifically working on improved telepathy and figuring out clairvoyance.”

"Mindscape buddies, all right, I can work with that."

“What’s yours?”

"Zero-g fog.  'S got stuff floating in it.  Yours?"

“Marble labyrinth -“ he was not going to mention or imply the existence of the coffins that he occasionally found in his mental corridors by using the word ‘catacombs’ - “underground, with clearly defined rooms.”

"Fun."

“Sure. What are your other capabilities.”

"Little bit of wind, little more of earth and time, full frost.  Mastery over flight, not-being-cold, controlling earth at range, fog, crystals, metal, and, recently, transmutation.  Solid at gravity and not getting battered around.  Also pretty okay with a knife."

“Mmhm. Kamin is a healer; quick-resurrection, very strong wound healing, everything else covered except for disease. Not enough fine control for it. Zeke is a brute, focused on individual combat, mobility, and defense.”

“I hit things until they die.”

“That was implied.”

"Well.  Overjoyed to make your acquaintances."

“I’m sure.”

"Any sign of the birdbrained one today?"

“No.”

"Should we go knock on her door or whatever."

“I dunno.”

"You - or the blond one - gave her the key."  She gestures to Jade.  "Do you know what room number she's in."