Nyrissa looked a bit surprised as he brought the topic up to her. "Have we changed that much?" she asked, considering. "I suppose it must be a combination of all of, ultimately. I do feel... refreshed, more like myself, before all of this ever happened. I couldn't honestly say, though the fact that this place feels more like the First World than the First World itself does certainly helps."<br/><br/>The winter would pass fairly quietly, at least until Allison mentioned her interest in meeting with the five dragons who had recently moved into the kingdom -  a topic that, up until that point, he hadn't heard anything about.