Hushed Willows oh lazarus, how did your debts get paid?

Even with the addition of another, Harlyn was ever swift to supply the answers to questions he hadn't asked. What surprised him of these was that Warbone was gone, as that had not been an absence that Mordecai would have suspected. Though whatever dialogue he had with the Keep's alpha was minute at best, he had hoped to talk to him at length further. Instead, that interest was already setting concrete to do the same of the one who had taken them in.

But it was Trick's particular line that grabbed at his interest. At first Mordecai wondered if there was some speculation as to where Warbone had spirited away to, but the rejoinder that came to follow dismissed that too easily. If Warbone did intend to return, he certainly had not divulged those details with his subordinates.

Yet it was not a thought that Mordecai merely cast aside; he nodded instead, understanding. Loyalty was a powerful bond. "Good of you not to lose your faith," he said. "These are trying times for us all, and I am sorry to hear that Warbone was absent to receive us." But thankfully they had still been received, as Mordecai had not wished to continue to go through the motions of trying to travel during the famine.