If they could hear us here I don't know why you think being on the ground below might be any safer.
[Their hosts had sent them down there, after all. She doesn't see how, if they wanted to, they couldn't listen in on them there too. This might be their main base of operations and where they kept all their machinery, but she can't help but suspect that they also have some level of magic at their disposal, and at that level they could have ears everywhere.
If her sister doesn't want to talk about things here, though, that's fine.]
Jon told me about the house. Packed, is it?
[Because if it is, she doesn't intend to stay there long. She can always find someplace nearby.]
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[Their hosts had sent them down there, after all. She doesn't see how, if they wanted to, they couldn't listen in on them there too. This might be their main base of operations and where they kept all their machinery, but she can't help but suspect that they also have some level of magic at their disposal, and at that level they could have ears everywhere.
If her sister doesn't want to talk about things here, though, that's fine.]
Jon told me about the house. Packed, is it?
[Because if it is, she doesn't intend to stay there long. She can always find someplace nearby.]