It was rather odd, being told about things that would happen in his future, and that had already happened in Joscelin's past. Things that had happened so long ago that they were only stories.

But he listened to the story and nodded at the end. "And how has Terre d'Ange been since I last walked the land? I know we had such great plans for the land and its people. And I am curious, why do you carry sheaths for daggers that look like the ones my dearest Cassiel used for his?" It seemed odd, both for him to have the sheaths in the first place if he was one of Shemhazai's, and for them to be empty.