There is no one but me, here.

[ it's said quietly, but with something of an edge now. ]

I have spent thousands, and thousands, and thousands of years -- months, days, weeks, minutes, counting them, with no one here for company, I have been alone. Whatever it is that you heard, it is not here -- it should not be here, and if it is --

[ and astoria pauses, before she sucks in a breath. ]

Then we must find it.