With the last bits of laughter draining from her lips, Eccelisa coughed to end it and returned herself to the present. "No, one dagger will not stop Chorl. He is... rather insistent, at my being brought back." Sensing Dasavi's confusion she softened her face. "And the women are fools because they will not, and cannot, see beyond their noses. You, on the other hand, have torn the cloth from your eyes that kept you from seeing. That would make you not a fool." Gathering up the water skin, she shouldered her pack and led the way further into the Forbidden Area. Sketches of decaying metal were outlined by the gray false dawn. Pivoting to face the girl, she bowed with a playful sweep of her arm. "Welcome Dasavi, to the Forbidden Area."