Anora watched Dan with a mix of suspicion and curiosity. She couldn’t tell if he was just etremely eager to answer and possibly get her fully on his side, or had had too few people to talk to in his lifetime. Or perhaps both, with how he spoke. 
	She inhaled, her expressive features shifting slightly with each bit of information Dan gave. At least he seemed a tad bit less skittish now Darsby had contented himself with the outside and Ahllasta was too busy in her world-hating corner of self-pity. 
	“I’m going to take that as yes, I control aether,” she interrupted, unsure if his ‘Yes’ was in answer to that question, or something else with how easily he said it.
	She listened to the rest of his response with a look of awed disbelief. 
	“So, I’m [i]not[/i] completely human, then?” she asked, her voice giddy. “But… then why am I the only one in my family who can control aether? Shouldn’t my siblings or parents have the same abilities? And Darsby mentioned Olympus before,” she continued on, eager for the answers he seemed willing to give. But she gave Dan scarcely enough time to breathe between questions, let alone respond. “We talking Zeus' and Hades' Olympus here, or in some sort of code? And is their ‘era’ something like a dynasty, then? Like, a period of rule? Or popularity?”
	She reached to fidget with the Earth pendant. A bubble of panic worked into her chest when she realizing she had dropped it on the floor when the car took flight. She quickly adjusted to search for it. She found it beside her backpack.
	With a relieved sigh, she grabbed it and straightened. Sitting awkwardly in her seat, she draped its cord around her neck. The small Earth thumped lightly against her chest.
	On the bright side, she hadn’t noticed any catastrophic earthquakes when she dropped it.
	“And… I won’t crush anyone in Australia by handling this thing, will I?” she asked with a slight, concerned smile. She carefully indicated the pendant, holding it from her by the cord. She didn’t [i]think[/i] Darsby would give her something she could cause mass destruction with. Not without a warning, anyway. But it was better safe than sorry.