"Never noticed him trying to eat crow -- it might have been a problem at the Wall if he had. Anyway, I don't think Young will get in his way."

On the subject of captives, he says, "Ask Grothia if she knows who was taken and if they got them all back. We got different messages when we tried to contact you. Robb's told me he was missing in action... there was never anything to say that the Regency took him. Yours told me you didn't exist."

Who did he see on arrival?

"Mordred is here. Noctis -- that's Dave Sky, isn't it? He's here. I don't know the others, not by name."