Norman wanted desperately to ask what it was that he wasn't being told, why it might be that she would be elsewhere, instead of here with her family. But once the scribe had returned, there was no way to ask, no way to find out without potentially sharing something that wasn't his to share.

So he looked at Sidon and nodded a little.

"I'll talk to you again later, then?"

He apparently had a dragon to talk about.