Jack slipped on the ring with a bit of a sigh.  He promised himself to be married one day, with a little woman at home and bright young children.  He did not want to offer the same sort of childhood he had experience though, with no set home.  As it was a real marriage was not possible, until he retired from his current life.  It was like being a sailor and staying away for months at a time.  What was the point?  He wondered what the old couple though of him putting on a ring, before the ceremony, and really did not care.  It was time to go.<br/><br/>"Yes, you've been very kind, but we really must go now.  Thank you.  Shall we my dear?"  He held out a hand for Lavinia, for the show of it, at to get used to the gesture.<br/><br/>Once they were outside the store, they headed toward the border with the train station just on the other side.  The game was afoot and they needed to be about their search.  The first stop would be the castle where the young man was studying before his communications with his father stopped.