He had simply shrugged at their irritation, before pointing out that they were essentially freeloading, except for Blossom and Flute, and if they were annoyed about him having to do things for his infinite number of backers, they could start finding out what those beings needed done, and do some of them.<br/><br/>Meridia got a more amused and tactful reply, adding that he was doing this for her mother, so the sooner it got done, the sooner her mother would stop worrying about it.<br/><br/>Done with that, he met Aurelia the next day, ready to travel, not expecting to be gone longer than a couple weeks at most.