We will have to compare stories one day. I do still have most of the mead I bought in Mirabar.

[She knows that kind of tone of voice. And certainly the other world she'd been in drove people to drink. Surely talking things out over a cup of mead couldn't hurt now.]

A good point. Mirabar hardly seemed in need of saving the way that the Horologium did. Supposedly, Astoria senses a darkness when she chooses to send us to a place, but I do have to wonder if another party might be making her sense things.