"An engineer," Seoraj echoes, taking a moment to contextualize it - he thinks of serving in Mawor and the things that the Duke there was doing for his city, what an ideal siege it was. They couldn't have been designed a better city to defend if Nitral had actually been planning for Arums when he'd started working on his walls.

After a few moments, in Lilura's wake, he says, "I didn't used to believe in magic," like they're a conspiracy of sensible men. "Saw and heard some strange things during the war, but that's as may be."

This is harder to deny, but he still leaves it to them as know what they're doing. He's a blacksmith. (He's a soldier.)