He waves a hand at her somewhat apologetic claim, nodding. "Of course, and I wouldn't expect you to." But the very knowledge others had come for, assumedly, sometime now, and that their knowledge was pooled somewhere? That was promising. He assumed this pool to be something physical, an archive he could devour or some such. That, of course, would be one of his questions, after all.

"Why don't we start off with something basic? Where might one find a warmer place than all this?"