"Xichen—?" he asked, but it stood to reason that she would have already encountered him while Mingjue was off fighting the island or something. Fair enough. He waved that away with a hand. "Nevermind. Good that you saw him already. He's better at this kind of thing. But yes. Home probably doesn't miss us at all, so we're stuck here until whatever gods run this place decide they're done with us."

He folded his arms across his chest, visibly struggled not to ask his next question, and then asked anyway: "I know a little about the future. A-Yao and Xichen have told me some, but I have only been through the first part of Sunshot. How much do you know of it?"