"Well, I can't say that divine contact is typical where I'm from, unless you count at funerals and that's indirect. But what is 'the weave'."

He was going to have to get more of the story. Because it suddenly dawned on Penric that there were now whole worlds of history and languages and things to learn.

(In his head, Des sighed and added that she'd rather get it from people rather than books.)