E-eh? [looks up at her - he would be going along as well, if he wasn't bearing a particularly precious weight] I heard that it might be happening, but I didn't think it actually was. Not that I'd do any good over there. anyway. I didn't go last time, either.

[a slight frown pinches his features a little] …matter of fact I've been wary of going anywhere, since we went to the Bog.

[of course he goes out almost-daily with Tama-chan - she's a tunnelling creature after all, and she needs the space to practice and to hunt - but never ventures further out than is safe. So it doesn't really count]