Ahh, that clarified a great deal. Alric smiled and nodded.

"I fully understand, and sincerely wish that you might find her, here.

And, yes, some of us have certainly been... considerably less fortunate than others, in the circumstances of their native time and place. For their sake, at the very least, I am willing to be patient with the silence of those who brought us here. ...still, I assure you, I do sympathize."