He tips his head, considering that. "Yes, she's rather intent. She thinks she's discovered something, some way to maintain life in a vacuum, but-" he pauses, then. "I'll be the first to admit I know almost nothing on the matter."

He takes a moment, then, and he turns. "Can I ask you a question, Aeriel?"

He thinks, if anyone knows the answer to Oriencor's obsession, if anyone has any key to the method to her madness, it is a woman who is so alike to her, in a manner. They are the same coin, one with two opposite faces.