"Interesting," says Silco, almost drawls it. He thinks about how Vi woke him from his squid form, about Viktor stumbling upon him on the beach. Perhaps those connections draw them to each other, draw them from the water.

"So who is there, from our cities?" he asks. "You, and the Vi girl, and..?" Trying not to sound too hopeful, knowing if she was here she would have found him already, but asking just in case.