Mm... I think I know what you mean. [Not that Belhalla had flying machines or anything that Ethlyn classes as 'high technology' now that she knows about it, but when the nobles of Grannvale began using the palace as a grounds to jockey for power rather than manage the country, they had lost sight of the people.] And then they don't see how weak the foundation has become.

[She leans away at Celes' warning, watching the hook plop into the water again and mentally crossing her fingers that Celes has a catch she likes better this time.]

I've never heard us described that way, but I like it. [The thought of being like a transient bird gets a smile out of Ethlyn.] It does feel like that, doesn't it? I thought that this was simply a different continent than my own, but others have taken it as read that we're on a different world entirely. If that's the case, then you can consider it one... but I don't know much about traveling such distances.