It's a change in topic that Billie is totally fine with.

"Knights named Alice and Lorna aren't in the records for Krimnos," Billie answers easily enough. She found confirmation of one suspicion but what does it really mean? All it did was spawn more questions. "I went through eighty years of them and nothing."

A mystery that dragons don't care about where they are, down on the floor. Red watches the twitching tail where it moves under the blanket, betraying Aconite's location, then wiggles himself like a cat and then darts in, taking a running leap to land on that very same movement.