“Really?” He eyed his fritter with suspicion. How was one supposed to eat these? Celestia was known for ignoring proper manners at all but the most formal of affairs, yet he dared not risk doing the same. It was kind of a dessert, so he should use his dessert fork—yet it was being served as an appetizer. The next course would probably be a salad . . . his thought trailed off as the magnitude of what she’d said sunk in. Think—what have you heard of explorations lately? Where might there have been a new country that wasn’t known? Funding for explorations had dropped off lately, since everything worth discovering had been discovered.