"Do you have, like, enhanced senses even when you're in human form?" Because he definitely wouldn't be able to identify a continent by its smell, and he considers himself relatively attuned to his olfactory sense.

Her explanation of the traditional exploration sounds reasonable enough, though he can't quite fathom it, himself. But Ned knows that his view on this sort of thing is different from most. He'd been living on his own since he was eighteen, had been living essentially alone amongst a crowd of other boys for another nine or so years before that. He knows from books and movies and some of the people he'd dated that people who grew up with stable families often feel stifled by them, long for a chance to be on their own. But there's nothing romantic about being alone, to him.

"Did you have any idea what you were planning to choose? I mean, between staying with your family or leaving them?"