I am one of the guard, yes! Though I wasn't when I met the Empress... I guess you could say she asked me to join?

[THAT SOUNDS SO CONCEITED! Even if it's kind of true.]

Ah, just -... I have an ability, you see? She thought it could be useful.

[That was why. He wasn't really that great, or anything. Honest!]

Yes. I'm sure of it.

The Natha have done stranger things. Just think of how they brought us all here!

[Unfreezing a world that they froze themselves should be no big deal, right? And even stopping a zombie dragon... is probably doable.]