"..you really don't know?" the knight asks, stopping dead in his tracks. Belatedly, he realizes Lacie will turn such a question into a snarky guessing game, and Kevin doesn't have the patience for it. Before she has a chance to answer him, he says, "Your brother isn't here anymore. He went home."

He doesn't want to know what she thinks of this, he decides. Turning away from her, the knight moves on, leaving her to make whatever faces she's going to make in relative privacy.