This is so much information. He listens with a mostly neutral expression, but every now and then his eyebrows twitch or his mouth shifts with his thoughts.

"Eight... hundred languages? Two thousand feet? That's taller than a mountain..." His glassy eyes stare through Verity as he tries to process all of this.

"People... Did... All of that? Without magic?" 'Stunned' doesn't begin to describe his reaction to all of this. He's full of questions, and he can hardly speak.

"How many races are there on Earth? And how do you do so much without a king?"