It's difficult to manage both averting one's attention from someone giving praise, and reading the praise being offered; for a moment, Ruka's tempted to reach over and simply erase that line from the board herself, but it strikes her as exceptionally rude.

Her hands remain still. "Exsilium, that's the name of this... city? Or world?" They're the only two possibilities that strike her enough to specify. "I'll admit, I wasn't paying the closest attention, during the unexpected lecture before."