"I don't know if I seek out adventure," he says slowly. "It rather has a way of finding me." He sighs. "I could endure the slow path, I think. Many humans have spent their entire lives on it, after all." And it had not been so long ago that he had not known there was anything else.

"But it bothers me that I don't understand why."

He frowns over the rest. "I can't recall any of the others ever mentioning a vortex to me. Not even in the Book of Gramarye."