He would be more than happy to show her the blade. Anything that could convince someone here that the Imperium was not this evil, backwards construct they thought it was. "We will find out when we recover the shard, I suppose."

She has little footsteps of fire: Gadriel would refuse to believe she was more affected by the heat than he was. Though with his armor depowered, it was...unpleasant. Still, he had endured worse. "Many have walked this path before. It cannot be in plain sight." He slowed his steps, looking around. Upward maybe? Or down a slope?