Isabella's seen Micaiah with his shirt off before and the sight isn't exactly new to her either, but she's never drawn her attention particularly to the scars - and she's been making a background assumption that scars are probably something Edori in general accumulate through harsh living conditions and that Micaiah in particular could have added to by pickpocketing violent people. But no. Of course at least some of them are from the sort of source that will leave Nathaniel utterly unsurprised.

"Delilah will be able to see us in a few minutes," she says.