[ A silence, which could be strange over a medium in which they can't see each other, or less awkward for it. If nothing else, Isaac would have been able to tell if the silence was for that first thing, or in thinking about the question.

Eventually; ]

There was a place. An island, off Rivain. Some of the other mages here, and me, we lived there outside the influence of the Circles. I'd a house there too.

[ Not quite so fine, but. ]

Where were you?