"Worried as hell, really!" Truthful, and yet with his return, she was perfectly capable of being cheerful now, too. "Where did you go?" Intuition alone has given her a clue, but it's one thing to make a leap like that, and another entirely to get confirmation.

"Beyond that, all right. When I found out--I told Hendrik, because I figured telling him probably would be better than him wondering and worrying, but..." She managed to look absolutely guilty, then.

"I don't think I was much help at all." Especially since she hadn't seen the knight since.