He doesn't like the fact that it's gotten easier, gotten easy to accept he can be pulled to-and-fro by some faceless power. One moment he's in the the jungle with Joseph, the next he's back in the palace gardens proper. The real surprise is that he's still with Joseph. More points in favor of whatever this place is.

"Shit," he breathes, taking a wide look up at a starlit night sky. Feels like it's been longer than mere hours since he's seen it, but he's grateful all the same.

"Is it always that easy?" Directed back at Joseph, the current expert on such things as puzzles and magic. He probably doesn't intend for that question to be as infuriating and it might be. Probably.