Editing Interlude – The Titan’s Question (section)

=== Umina's Question ===

Q1 (unofficial): Am I special? Do I stand out? As a student?
A1 (shortened): No.

After explaining [[Niers|his]] reasoning for the answer, Umina asks another question.

Q2: What is the identity of your mysterious chess opponent?
A2 (shortened): Declines to answer.

Niers explains to [[Umina]] that the question is too dangerous and that previous questions have gotten students killed, among other reasons. Umina agrees to ask a different question.

Q3: What was the answer to the question Tulm the Mithril was going to ask you if he won at Daquin?

After initially declining to answer again, he answers the question faithfully, but we only learn the actual answer later on in the chapter. 

A3 (verbatim): No, you idiot. You got a young one. There are more. Perhaps on Baleros, but I know of two on Izril. They walk among us. Leave them alone.





Niers, after the having answered both questions and the students having left, states the answer to Umina's first question has changed. No other student had been as hard to predict.

Lying in bed, the pieces fell into place for Umina: Dragons.

[[Wil]], preparing a message with the answer to his father, is visited by [[Foliana]] who erases his memory with a [Erase Memory] scroll and then takes the paper Wil had drafted his message on and swallows it. She then hands him a a short missive from Niers which explains their reasoning.

A question on someone else's behalf is no real question, in his mind. However, he is aware of a number of sea-based locations which the [[Forgotten Wing Company]] has not been able to explore so far. A list with those locations is attached to the letter. Furthermore, he urges them to try to back before the end of their summer break. Additionally, Wil's father should direct any of his inquiries to him directly.