Hmmm, that's nice. That you're close I mean.

["Not as close as she wanted" isn't something he's even going to comment on, since that sort of thing isn't exactly uncommon back home.]

But there were a few things that were there when I arrived. Some important spell books and the like. There was one possession that should have been there that wasn't, but it's probably for the best that it didn't come.

[Solomon's ring here where the wrong person could take it? What a disaster that would be.]