"A place where the gods can't hear you," Alanna muses, searching her memory for any scholarly reference that might fit that description. She comes up empty, but that doesn't mean Numair or Jonathan won't know anything about it. She determines to look in the library in Carthak if she has to in order to find so much as a hint of where her friend has been spirited away to.

"It's something to start with, in any case. And it may be that the Goddess will help, if she doesn't know what's going on." She isn't depending too heavily on that, though. The Gods aren't fickle, but they aren't particularly helpful either when they don't have a reason to be. Numair had explained many of their interactions once they had both returned from-

"Not since Carthak? What about in the Divine Realms? Numair said you spoke with Gainel there."