"If you were still up it, and called out, I'd call you down and so you'd not be startlin', now, would you?" Kate retorts, her temper not mollified in the slightest. Normally, she tries to keep her temper in check, but currently, it's decidedly off the leash.

Still, she forces herself to take a steadying breath has the man admits that he hasn't seen his shy wife.

"I was just in the village," she confirms. "The sky turned all purple and people have been vanishing in little groups maybe every quarter hour, or so it feels like. But the queerest, darndest thing is besides the sky, it was all normal. No other weirdness like our captors like to throw at us."

Kate regards him for a moment.

"I'd say the odds are that Mrs Odair is unharmed."