Dan chuckled at the qualifier she felt she needed to add. "I do try."
He allowed a companionable silence to settle over them as they consumed the remainder of the adorable forest creature. Once the meal was concluded, he began describing the layout of the manor in exhaustive detail, complete with stick drawings in the dirt.
"And this passage here connects his private study, where he will no doubt take me, to the sitting room, where you will likely be if he does not just bring you along to rub my naiveté in my face. If, for some reason, he has us taken straight to the small dungeon he had installed in the basement, there is a secret escape tunnel he does not think I know about. Unfortunately, I do not know where it lets out or if it is accessible or even visible from the outside. Unless you have a way of discovering it, we cannot just sneak in that way."