It was slower than usual, but Ven's smile returned and he shook his head. "No, it's okay." It was his own fault for jumping ahead, like always.

Pushing his disappointment behind him, Ven listened attentively. "But it's always at a crystal," he surmised quietly. "So the next time Heroes come in..." He could be there to see whether anyone he knew had arrived. Rather than finishing that thought out loud, however, Ven focused on what Zelda had said last. "Aqures... it's sounding like a pretty important place." It was where they lived, where most of the resources were -- according to Mograe -- and where the Heroes tended to show up, apparently. "And that's across the water, right? So we can only get there by airship?"