"Tch." Albel glanced down. Had that thing tried to kick him? He barely felt it. He shook his leg to wave it off.

"Yes -- we retrieved Aquaria's sacred orb, and..." Albel stared back at Fayt, trying to understand. And purposely leaving out the part about going to Airyglyph for the Crimson Scourge. He didn't really want to relive that. "We were going to use it to defeat those Proclaimers, and the Owner that Blair woman kept talking about. We were just there, before... this."

Before he'd woken up here.