[Impossibly long, perhaps, but they arrive there soon enough. He's even going to hold the door open for her like a good son!]

[But for now, the house is silent.]

I believe Anise and Tear may have stepped out some time earlier, but I'm not sure whether Florian is home or not... I think perhaps the house has been a bit too quiet for him lately.

[...it was hard to believe there were so few of them living here now.]