#scarsdale

"Shhh.... soon you'l be back. Or your children, nu?"

He pets the cat. Then looks to the childling.

It does not respond, but even inert, it is lovely.

"You, boy... we'll talk when you wake, nu?"

Bertand lays there in his clothes, snoring heavily. Which is as close to a response as Hirim is going to get.

"Yeah." The nocker hitches up his belt and steps outside, motioning an apprentice to him with a message for Master Ratchet to come visit.