She nodded slowly in response to his former inquiry, which she assumed was mostly rhetorical in nature. Beyond that, she found herself caught once again. He lived in lands across the water and the only waters Ziio had ever found herself vaguely familiar with were those where the outsiders had come from.

"The same waters as the British Isle and the king who resided there?" she asked quietly, knowing there were hundreds of years between the days she'd known and Hagakure's.