Nodding subtly toward the trees, he frowns. "The distance is deceptive. One can walk through there for hours and not get anywhere, or be back where he started. Even following a straight and true line, the results are unpredictable."

He's a trained tracker; he knows what he's doing when he assesses an environment. It's something he had to excel at with the Turks and it's an ability he knows he hasn't lost. "The same thing holds true if one travels at the treetop level." Or above it, but he doesn't need to tell her he can fly. He's still getting used to that one himself.

"You can wind up where you started without making a complete circuit. I don't think this... asteroid we're on is very large -- there are times when the bend in the horizon is so marked and so evident -- but the distances are... nontraditional."

Perhaps that's a better way to put it than deceptive.