The group had seen enough Dwemer machines at this point that the clunk and whirr of the armatures proved no reason to be startled. However, the scale of the machine before them did cause a stance of cautious observation. The map radiated onto the floor beneath their feet and drew them all to peer down and around it.

"Sabine informed us you had a means of observing Vile's realm," Gro-Tagnud ventured. "Is that what we are looking at?"

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Lunise curled her lips in and swallowed. "Meesei...you do amaze me." She turned her head down. "I have little doubt of your own sureness. But, you must please forgive me if I do not share it. I have long lived with my mother's absence as a matter of course. While it may not do harm to try and find Artaeum -- [i]if[/i] you find it at all...I am fully willing to admit I have not a thought of what I should do."

Her upper body curled forward as if the air of her lungs was being sucked away. "So much has changed." She breathed in again, straightening a little. "Look, if you wish to entertain the idea, let us not speak of it as determined until it is confirmed. Such high hopes and fancy tempt imprudence."