Despite the appeal to flat out ignoring her, he did begin to realize that she probably wouldn't stop talking, and only grow into an insistent pest. So instead of simply waiting for that to happen, he answered her. "Ivalice. A finer place than this one." And then she said something that caused him for the first time to look at her with a bit of curiosity and not annoyance.

"Time-split? And what is that?"