"Just what is all this noise all about?" I muttered as we finally reached the entrance of the garden, a process that took us much more time than I expected when we first floated the idea of returning.
"Maybe they are running some sort of an exercise?" Claire suggested, clearly racking her brain in an attempt to come up with something plausible enough for our mutual satisfaction. "Or maybe they just got angry we were gone for so long, so they came to believe we ran off somewhere or something?"
I chuckled a bit when hearing this.
"After all the shit that happened back at the feast… I don't really think they care about me all that much. You, on the other hand…"
I put on a pondering look on my face as I took a step to the side and looked Claire up from the top of her head to her shoes.
