As soon as the other bent to retrieve his books, Hendrik tried to help to get them. Handing a book over, he shook his head. This was now the time for questions since their personal issues had been reset aside.

"What is this place? The last I knew we were in Angri-La, on Mount Pang Lai. You would have spent six years of your childhood there to train with their Grand Master according to His Holiness, the High Lama. And we were enroute to find out more when you slipped away from my side."

He took a breath and looked up at the castle beyond where they currently stood, then back at the Luminary. "And now I find that I am here with you."