"I don't think it's hard to be better than here." He rolled his eyes with a glare at the fog. "But it doesn't sound bad at all." The island villages always did seem pretty quiet; like it took longer for whatever plagued the continents to get there. "Give it a few generations and you'll have half the world mapped, I bet."

Which was both encouraging and vaguely distant; he half expected that if they weren't on his world, they probably weren't anywhere that would be found on hers, either.