"You might not find it so impressive when I tell you that I built it after running away from my kingdom and accidentally freezing the entire fjord and setting off a magical winter." She does preen just a little bit when she realizes he really is impressed. It feels wrong to do so, because that remains one of her biggest regrets and her biggest mistakes, but the recognition is still nice.

And then she laughs, noting that she feels like she can relax a little bit around him. Not too much, but enough. "If I could make you a castle, would you want one?" She's lived in a castle for most of her life, until recently, so it's not as appealing to her as it might be to someone who isn't used to that sort of life.

And, well, she's never been all that good at reading people, but there is something about him that suggests he's been through a lot. "I'm sorry. And now you're stuck here too."

It's probably strange to worry about someone she's just met, but she can't turn off that feeling so easily.

"I could try, yes. But they reached out to me first, and I don't know if they'll answer even if I did reach out to them." It's something she hasn't thought much about until just this moment, and now she has more questions than answers.