Ilde, though, is someone who responds in very particular ways to different sorts of people; it's easy for her to fall into the role she plays beside Mycroft, the bright precocious participant whose age becomes indistinct in conversation, but it's a role and one that's only part of her various assorted truths. (She understands the concept of truth in falsehoods because she is that.)

“Most places,” she concedes, because she's never been the most pollyanna girl in the world and frankly, she doesn't like most people. She's good at tolerating them, but she's not as much of a social creature as she sometimes pretends; it's just interesting that in Baedal there are more of the sort of people she genuinely does like than she's accustomed to there being around her. It isn't part of her theory about why they're brought here, but it is interesting.