The trip back's nice and uneventful. Ironsides's ship has a skeleton crew as Noriko passes by it, so it seems that all the loading and unloading for today has been finished. Well ahead of schedule.<br/><br/>The old thaumaturge has a little sign hung up on his door. "Busy in experiment. Please wait for sign to be taken down." Although, there's a faint hint of music coming from inside. Harps, it sounds like.<br/><br/>(Meanwhile, in the shadows, a lurking figure watches. Even when not in the shadows, it's a shadowy, lurking figure. Noriko doesn't notice. Nor do most of the people. This figure is good.)