"Wish I could show you here, but the lake spirits are pretty vicious. Still, these folks with the market have ships that the spirits can't chew through, so there's a way somehow. That, and the ferry."

Something to think on more, but he's going to crack this one way or another. It's not practical here really, though there might be ruins still to find around the lakeshore and he does still want to know how big it is. It's mostly just for the sake of curiosity and his own need to be out on the water after so long spent landlocked.

Enough about himself, though, and Haein's just given him an opening. "You said you were a student, right? What were you studying?"