We found you. His entire world had shifted that day, and it had taken him far too long to see it. To realize. A terrible thing he had done had brought him something he'd needed, but at the same time had nearly doomed him to lose it in the same action. The very picture of irony.

Essek gestures broadly at the island. "The ruins are all about us, where the current inhabitants have not managed to restore. I could bring you to any number of things, if you're sure you'd want to delve into the history of such a place given its..."

Its what?

"Proclivities."