Marie
I immediately raised an eyebrow. "Doubt or not, still a distinct possibility." I replied.
I had met Chris before, and liked what I saw. A decent guy. Most likely, Cel wasn't cheating on him. She just didn't strike me as the type to do so.
Still...most likely doesn't mean for sure.
Then again, it wasn't my business. But I would ask her about Cailean later.
"By the way..." I added, with a wink and a smile, "If she has competition for Chris...I know a rifleman, whose wife knows an intelligence analyst, who knows an American, who knows an intelligence officer, whose friend owns a little building in Silesia, as well as a truncheon, some rope, and a chair."
I was kidding, of course. Hopefully that was obvious.
Adelheid
I nodded, not quite getting where that was. "The Free Lands are...far bigger than I guessed at first, when Marie told me about them." I admitted. "I was expecting an island or two, but instead got an archipelago with numerous large islands. I unfortunately didn't have much time, or any time, to read up before coming here." Thanks to Berengar and his jetlag, I added mentally, "In addition, I may have been a little too jet-lagged to understand some parts of Marie giving me a crash course on the Free Lands." I flushed a little with embarrassment. "Sorry."