Rhonda
"Wholeheartedly agreed," She replied enthusiastically. "I've always tried to prioritize first-hand experience over anything else. Sitting in a tower and theorizing won't help people without action to back it up."

She looked over to Calcelmo's work for a moment, but it was clear she was pondering something instead of actually watching. She turned back to Byleth and said, "How much did Sotha Sil agree with what we're saying? It seems like he was quite reclusive, all things considered."
Pamela
"He was. Moreso in his later years. But he was very important to me regardless. He believed us all to be bound by fate. He knew roughly everything that would unfold. He knew that he would be killed by Almalexia. He did seek The Truth, but unlike Vivec, he never found it."

*Behind, the sound of someone yelling filled the cavern

Three! Two! One! 

BOOM

And then the sound of crumbling stone. Byleth turned and began walking.*

"Walk with me, we will talk on the way down."
Rhonda
She recoiled in shock when he casually mentioned the death of the Sotha Sil. Her eyes were wide and mouth agape with astonishment when he told her to follow him. A few seconds after, she shook herself out of her daze and took a few long strides to keep up with him.

"That theory's true?" She asked, voice soaked with amazement. "I'd heard someone say that was what happened, but I'd written it off as speculation... But how did it happen? Why did Almalexia kill him? Why didn't he fight back if he knew it would happen? And where did Vivec go afterwards?"

As she listed off her questions, she followed him in, trying not to be too awestruck by the fact that she was being welcomed into an official Dwemer excavation with a Clockwork Apostle.