A fair bit of this scene ended up just popping into my head, but works rather well overall. Took me a few tries to get the opening feeling right, but things flowed rather nicely after that.

Definitely on the brief side, but that's because the majority of it is dialogue, as Aislin and Micha spend most of the time discussing recent events -- when Aislin isn't busy reflecting on things to bring the reader up to the present, that is -- but it flows together nicely. I'm rather pleased I was able to work in the bit about Ara, in both cases, since she didn't make it into the notes last night.

Still have to decide when (and if) they're going up to Kynuras and Sindhri Hold to visit, but that can be put off for a time. Probably until book 7.