My apologies, [ equally polite, perhaps setting down his own attempts at multitasking to better focus on the conversation before him. ] It seems an interesting spell.

Do you suppose the magister of significant enough rank in the Venatori to perhaps untie this knot here and now for us? It would be a very valuable gift for us- and with all due respect, Madame de Cedoux, [ gently. ] as you said, somniari are extremely rare. The only living one I am aware of is the one mentioned in the Tale of the Champion, and he was purported to be the only one in several centuries. We have resources, yes, but to devote them to what may well be a project that bears no fruit...