Parne’s eyes narrowed as he saw the path tremble slightly – for a moment appearing as a mirage might through the heat haze of a particularly harsh desert, or how the face of another might look from the other side of a raging bonfire. It was an intent look, but not a particularly unsettling one – he was studying her, quietly assessing her. ‘It may very well have been… Which is all the more curious – like I told you before, I have no doubt that I will be able to impart some knowledge of things arcane to you, but this magic is a different one. It relies on a person having prior knowledge of where they are going, or at least a desire to seek something out in the vicinity – if you opened a second path, it would usually indicate that you were looking for something… Its there somewhere near by that you visit often, or have fond memories of?’<br/><br/>He didn’t laugh or smile at her comment of upon not winning the lottery – not in the least because he didn’t have a solid idea what she was talking about, and more to the point that he was much more interested in following the line of thought he had set upon in questioning her.<br/><br/>Seeing her own gaze flitter towards the off shoot path, Parne slowed his own pace – eventually stopping as it looked as if the other path might drop out of sight altogether were they to continue to walk for much longer. ‘I’m not the one to ask – you’d have to ask yourself… I wouldn’t be as quick as to call it the ‘wrong’ path, just not the one I had initially intended to follow in order to reach the destination I had planned for us. Still, I have heard of stranger things happening – alas I am not sure we will be able to explore that path under such a tight time limit as I have promised to your Aunt…’<br/><br/>Perhaps he would be able to pique her interest enough all the same – and truth be known, he too was more than a little curious about this other path, wondering exactly what place it led to and for what reason it had been formed. ‘Danger can be found anywhere – such is the way of the world I am afraid, and I am sorry if I made it seem we would have a totally unhindered journey, and I would hope you would accept that I was not lying to you in not telling you so…’