On the bridge spanning two streets, Ansel listened to Ravenna's irate complaints:
"Finding someone with no trace in three days? And you want me to do it?"
"You're quite good at ordering people around, Ansel. I'm not exactly your subordinate... not really."
"And you could have symbolically taken a single copper coin. Was it necessary to take everything?"
At this, Ansel cleared his throat. "Marlina took everything, not me."
"You shameless brat!" The scholar stomped on Ansel's shoulder in annoyance. "Don't shift the blame. Without your approval, would she have taken it all?"
Marlina initially wanted to explain that she acted on her own accord without Ansel's instructions, but she quickly realized she had no place in their conversation and that Ravenna wasn't serious.
"Stop complaining, my dear Miss Monster."