He nods in understanding. Very few places would be such a refuge as the inn offers, he suspects, especially given what she had described before.

It briefly occurs to him to wonder if Avallac'h might have deliberately delayed until Ciri's need was desperate, in order to make himself appear more favorable in her eyes. It would not be unlike how Jin Guangshan had delayed his arrival during the Sunshot Campaign, conveniently maintaining the strength of the Jin where the other sects had suffered greater losses in the war.

But such suspicions are not kind, he reminds himself, and truly the man had suffered and has aided her; he must remember that.

"Did he find you, after that?"