As Inaho walked up the stairs to the roof of the hospital, and opened the door to the open air, it occurred to him that it felt like a long time since he'd been out of the hospital. Realistically it had only been about 24 hours, but that did not diminish the ease that came with going outside into the warmth and the sun. What an inopportune moment to come to that conclusion now.

Inaho filed the thought away for later, pulled out his cell phone, and dialed 1. Yuki-nee had insisted on being number 1 in his phone. No one else had a number assignment but her, since she had insisted. The phone rang for far too long, a good indicator that he was being impatient. He noted that, and took a slightly deeper breath than normal.

He could hear the clicking of the phone, indicating that Yuki-nee was answering, and before long he heard her voice clearly through the devise. "Nao? Are you on your way back?"

"Yuki-nee, is our guest still there?"

He had just a moment to imagine her gawking before getting the expected response. "Oh no you don't. You are not having this very important conversation with our very important guest over a cell phone line. Nao, you know better than that. Plus it's rude. Very, very rude. If she was like, I don't know, in the United States or somewhere really far away, maybe, but she isn't. She's at our house."

"Yuki-"

"Hold on, hold on. How about this. You, come here, and I take Inko and Rayet back to their hotel, and go there. That way you two can have your privacy-" He didn't like the way she said that. "and you don't have to worry about someone doing something they shouldn't."

It shouldn't have surprised him how accurately she summed that up. "Yuki-"

"You can get a taxi from the hospital instead of taking the bus. It'll be faster!"

"How long have you been planning this?" He asked with just a hint of suspicion in his voice. She wouldn't miss it.

She sounded pleased with herself. "Since you didn't come running when I called the first time. Nao, are you really that worried?"

It took him to long to answer. She knew what he would say already, didn't she? "I will take your suggestion. Be ready to go when I arrive. It would be rude to leave our guest alone." He paused for just a beat, "Be on time today, Penivia." then quickly disconnected the phone as he could hear her groan in irritation on the other end.

He let the hand holding his phone fall to his side. From this high up, he could see a good part of the city around them, and the ocean in the distance. It wasn't a big place, where they'd ended up, but that was intentional. An island was an ideal place to keep Slaine Saazbaum Troyard captive. It didn't have all the same amenities that their last home had, but it wasn't a bad place either. Life seemed slower here.

Inaho took a few more seconds to look at the surroundings, the ocean in the distance, the breeze as it jostled his hair, the salt in the air. It was nice.

He quickly turned back around, and headed inside. The only destination in mind was the hospital room where he'd spent the last day. His bag was still there, and this would be an opportune time to switch out his dirty clothes.

He entered the hospital room without knocking, nodding in respect to the guard as he went in. The nurse was still there, taking blood work from Slaine, who was giving her no trouble at all. His gaze was still on the blue roses, now placed on his bedside table. Inaho looked at them for a few moments as well. Blue was not a natural color for roses. It would have made more sense to send something more common. The rather vague card sticking out of the arrangement likely had a lot to do with it.

So Count Slaine Saazbaum Troyard knew, and understood the language of flowers. Inaho was having a hard time deciding what to make of that. It seemed like an entirely trivial fact, but he found it perplexing. Most men did not pay a lot of attention to flower meanings. There weren't flowers on Vers. In fact, he had found at least a few of the Counts he had interacted with had some form of paranoia about organic earth life forms.

There was much to consider on the matter, but he would ponder that later. He greeted the nurse with a nod of his head, and went to retrieve his bag. Slaine did not look up as he passed by. His eyes were still entirely on the flowers. That seemed relevant, and he wasn't sure exactly how relevant. Yuki-nee was always telling him how poorly he interpreted these things.

His eyes settled on the card. "Two meanings." The nurse was looking at him, but Slaine didn't look away from the flowers. Inaho wasn't sure if he had expected him to. He let it go.

"I will be back." He turned towards the door, and left.