You are right in such a supposition, far-shooting Graham-- Although Ryba could tell us that Nalanni lives still, she knows not where she might be found. The Nalawi race has not needed before to offer supplications to the goddess who watches over them, and it seems that doing so presently will bring their pleas no closer to her ears.

As for the sacrifice desired by wave-ruling Ryba, it seems that it is the lives of men she seeks as payment. But it is not a blood payment: rather, she spoke of the shade that slips between our teeth when we breathe our last. That is what she took from the Dakal when to her in desperation they came, but what succor she granted in return she would not say.