she has his full attention

"You definitely keep me something Topaz, not sure if it's young or mad"

The magical reappearance of the elusive Serpent Queen

Obsessed isn't the word he would use. Missed? Irritated comes closer to accurate. She's so self important that she vanishes when she pleases and pops right back . . . at the most inconvenient times.

He might have had an initiation in the next half hour who he was planning to vent his frustrations on

Quite bad timing. Is there something that she needed from him between now and then?

Count him curious

Oh she has? What can he help her with

'𝘾𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠, 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪.

So maybe he and the town have change a bit