"...Yes. I was there." Pardon Ulki for being so frank, but Rhys was giving him a good recount of things he'd been there for in the first place. It was hard to forget something like that indeed. Maybe it was time to redirect the conversation.

"What has happened over the past year?" He was genuinely curious; the city appeared a bit different, as did the school. Almost as though it had been remodeled... And he couldn't hear any of it. How strange.