As usual, Matoya was seated with her crystal eye, hunkered down over it in fact. Of all the people to come and go from her cave, this one she knew the best. She'd watched over him and his companions from afar, seen their coming before they were born.

And as for his comment, she finished it off for him by raising her voice. "... is no different than the last time you were here. You're no better looking than you were then either."