A woman?

Martin frowned again. Even as Bariyan explained, he couldn't connect it to some pressing, immediate danger afflicting Exsilium.

Woman...monsters...Those things were a lifetime away; they had no business in the here and now, as far as Martin felt was right.

"They don't talk to you, do they?" Martin asked, sounding doubtful in asking. "They just...appear?"

He didn't know of hallucinations, mirages, or lucid dreams. They were as real as anything else Bariyan could see, surely?