The Exarch can't help but chuckle. Yes, in a sense it is poetic, yet there is little poetic about this woman's direct manner of speech as she attempts to convey the poetic nature.

"It seems with so many mysteries to this land, we have much room for theorising. Perhaps thinking of the realm as having a mind of its own is not so far-fetched, if it can do such things as write music on blank pages."