"He cried when I came in, dunno if that works and was kinda personal. Ah, I think cleaning the stairs to this floor gave him a power he has been suppressing. I wasn't paying attention at the time."

"Could you tell me - what order he cleaned some rooms in, or what was for a meal I haven't seen, or something like that?"

"Ah. The meals have been about the same, and I don't eat what he eats. But after I came he cleaned the bedroom, the garden, the kitchen then the stairs to this floor, this hall and the library."

"Thank you."

And to Henry, "She says that after she came you cleaned the bedroom, the garden, the kitchen then the stairs to this floor, this hall and the library."

That gives Henry pause.

"Are you in league with them?"

"With whoever might be keeping you here? No. I don't know more about them than what you told me. It's true that I woke up here." (If he's the kind of person to blame whoever he can land blame on, he won't believe her. But she can't do anything about that.) She waits to see if Tama will give her an answer to relay, or if she should say something herself.

"How do you know any of this then?"

Tama hisses. "I told her you, dolt." She stands between Henry and Xeyr just in case.

She thinks she can get back in front of Tama if she needs to. (That's kind of Tama, though. Not needed, but kind. And Mia would like it.)

"Tama told me. I said I could ask her about something that happened while you were here and I wasn't, and I asked her." But it makes sense, to think what he thought. She probably could have thought, of that.

"I could leave the room, and you could tell her something, and I could come back, and ask her? If that would work," she adds to Tama.