Giggle.

"Okay, sounds good."

He smiles, and dissolves into the wind.

A quarter of an hour later, he checks to make sure no one is currently in the southern end of the palace, and then he dissolves one of the outer walls and starts building an extension.

About a half an hour into this, someone finds his construction.

"Were you concerned that I wouldn't have enough castle to explore, or is this merely a typical outlet for boredom?" she wonders.

"Neither!"

"Oh? What brought this on, then?"

"I don't want to tell you, it's embarrassing," he says cheerfully.

"Is it? Well, you are free to keep your silence if you find you'd like to, but I do warn you, I have an active imagination and will come up with whatever answer suits me."

"I will be very surprised if you manage to guess the right answer."

"Oh, I may attempt to guess?" she says, delighted with the idea.

"Sure, why not." Another wall takes shape. This is going to be a beautiful little courtyard.

"Well," she muses, "it's embarrassing but not unpleasantly so, I think, else you'd not be so willing to let me have my fun." She watches his body language, to see how he reacts to this statement.

He shrugs easily. Elegant stone pillars sprout from the ground like trees. "Maybe I'm just very confident you're not going to guess it."

Hm, nothing conclusive there. He's hard to read.

"Perhaps, but I do so enjoy difficult challenges." She hums thoughtfully. "You move through the wind to wherever you'd like to go - I doubt it was something like tripping and tumbling head over heels down a convenient flight of stairs. Much as it pains me to relinquish the visual."

He giggles.

Smile.

"Physical comedy as a genre seems incorrect, as well. Not only is it unlikely, but whatever brought on the creation of an entire new section of the castle seems more significant than that. Else this castle would be much larger than it is."

"You're not wrong there. Although I do sometimes tear sections down and rebuild them."

"Well, certainly. I'd expect nothing less. But if I'm not mistaken, I get the impression that this is quite abnormal."

"It's been an abnormal week."

"It has. Three thousand years of simplicity, disturbed by surprises."

"Pleasant surprises, for the most part, if not perfectly convenient ones."

"Mmm. No, surprises are not convenient, that's part of their charm." She looks at him curiously. "I doubt I was the surprise that so disturbed you."

"Well, I haven't done anything embarrassing in front of you, have I?"

"No, but I must acknowledge my lack of involvement out loud, as proof to the world that my narcissism does not entirely rule me."

He laughs.

"So. Nothing to do with me, but something to do with recent oddities. Did you embarrass yourself in front of your other guest?"