"Mm, playful yes, confident not nearly as much as he should be. And what brought you here, if I may ask?"

It was complicated. Azem was one of the most powerful of them, in ways that even Emet-Selch could not match, but his power lay in different places than what one might expect.

"I don't mean the specifics, the parts that you can't talk about. But how you went on your journey."