"I have never felt unsafe in our camps," Skellig says - just to clarify. "Between the locations you have chosen and your nature, I have felt safe."

But he has always slept a bit lighter than he does here in this bed, or in their bed back in the village...

"And I do not expect that to change. But a ward might aid in cutting out some of the noise," he agrees, motioning idly at the thin air above them.