"The. Void. Moth," Alaric says slowly, wondering if Imsayed wasn't the only one who had taken a blow to the head. "It wants us to take all the young ones that Remi has, and conveniently he wants to bring them along too."

Then, remembering Mishka probably didn't get the word about the recent breakthrough in cross-species communications, he adds, "By the way, the moth is sapient and I basically invented an entire new field of xenolinguistics."