"My thanks, but if it's any assurance, Leonardo is safe at home with his friends," he said, hoping that may soften the blow a little. He knew many who came here were dead in their own worlds and their disappearance was a return to that.

"I hope your return was not too disorienting? If you'd like, I can fix you something, on the house of course."

Klaus was a fair man, but he was given to occasional bouts of nepotism. He quite liked Bastien, when the pirate wasn't shooting out his windows that is.