"I didn't tell them to send her back did I?" The man growled irritably, dropping into his normal tone as soon as he was sure no one was around to hear them. "They didn't have to send her right away either. They could have waited until she was old and THEN sent her. Hell it's not like I won't still be around then." He rubbed the back of his neck and then jerked it to either side, cracking his vertibrae loudly.

As he was walking, the man casually slipped into a side hall and caught her sleeve to pull her along after him, making straight for the nearest unoccupied window, where he slipped off his annoyingly long ceremonial robe and stashed it where it wouldn't be seen or harmed, leaving his pants on and kicking off his shoes.