Perhaps he just found the situation novel enough to be interesting, or maybe he was just too polite to tell her off, but he treated Frozen Thoughts with a surprising amount of understanding and patience.
“Well,” Zach said. “Congratulations, I guess. What exactly did you succeed at?”
“I found a way to open the secret research facility hidden in the ceiling of the Cyorian web,” Zorian said. “Without destroying any of the contents, I mean.”
“Oh?” Zach said, sitting up a little straighter. “Anything interesting?”
“I’m still going through it all, but at first glance most of it seems to revolve around their efforts to translate human magics into forms more compatible with the aranea,” Zorian said.
“Makes sense,” Frozen Thoughts said. “Isn’t that the whole point of living beneath Cyoria? At
