[ She nods, a brief tilt of her head acknowledging and answering his question. Why she's been hesitant for so long, she's not exactly sure... Perhaps it was vulnerability, or perhaps fear of becoming once more who she once was. After all, under Artemis's influence, it had been so easy...

But Ryne is gone, and if she has any hope of getting back home to their frozen world, any hope of saving her - and everyone else - then... well, she supposes that Urianger would say that any knowledge she can obtain would serve to aid her. And in some ways, Emet-Selch quite possibly knows her better than she knows herself.

Gaia squares her shoulders, lifts her chin, angling her gaze right at his own. ]

I told you that my memories of my life are largely gone, did I not? In fact, "Gaia" is not even truthfully the name I was given upon my birth, although I have chosen to carry it forward. It was given to me by an old friend in an effort to remind me of another life that I no longer remember.

[ And here, her gaze falters, just for a moment, a drop of her eyes, an unhappy twitch of her lips before a deep breath brings her back. ]

Gaia was also my name in that life. Although most knew me only by the title of the seat I held: that of Logrif.