Joscelin was still too flabbergasted to do anything but let himself be pulled along to the cafe, staring at Elua's back. This... had been a desperately confusing day. Finding the bodies of Delaunay and his household, then being drugged by Melisande Shahrizai and now being brought to a strange city and thrust into the company of Blessed Elua... it was nearly enough to break him and leave him simply staring and blinking off into space.

But still. He would try to pay attention. It was Elua. He took a seat. "There has been much that has happened, as I am sure you can imagine. You dwelt in Terre d'Ange for three-score years before the One God and Mother Earth joined to make the Terre d'Ange That Lies Beyond, where we all go when our time has passed."