I do not mean to interrupt, miss - by all means, you must first contact your loved ones.

Perhaps after that we should ask what evidence there is remaining at the castle of our disappearance? If someone hasn't, already, that is!

If they have been worried about us it would seem it is not as though we've only gone home, like others.

[He would come perch on her shoulder, but that would be rude, so he'll just try to glance surreptitiously instead.]