[ For, perhaps, just this one time, that blood belongs not to one of his victims, but the recently deceased he had little hand in. Quaint, that. Still, his companion does bring up a good point, even if it is likely simply an excuse. ]

Laundry does bring up quite an important question, doesn't it? I DO wonder how this culture cleans their clothes. I can't imagine they simply use the usual, not when they seem to have all this just for transportation.

[ The unsaid: wow he really needs to get the blood out of this coat. ]

I do not understand why they could not simply ask us to come here rather than resorting to kidnapping in the middle of whatever we were doing. I would not have minded.