She was silent for a few moments at that, studying Anton as she thought. "Multiple reasons," she said finally. "For some years I was looking for a particular set of ruins that held answers to a personal quest. In that time, however, I traveled all across our world, and visited remnants of many different places and times. There was, and still is, so much to be learned from even what little is left, especially now that..."

Another hesitation, her passion for the ancient past warring with the desire not to revisit every single thing they had been through simply in the pursuit of context. "A number of things recently came to light which quite literally restructured our world," she decided on eventually. "There's a wealth of material that hints at the answers to questions no living person can now answer, which I believe are vitally important even if only for an understanding of how the world came to be this way. If I'm lucky, my lifetime may be enough to find those answers and pass them on."