Jamie glanced at his brother, wary concern written clearly in blue eyes. The pass phrase rang true, but so much still wasn't adding up. A lot of it now focused on Ted, if Jamie was honest. It was looking less and less like a prank and more a concerning situation Jamie wanted to get to the bottom of before things went any further. Pass phrases could be revealed, after all, and when someone you'd known your entire life was acting decidedly strange, it was time to consider the reasons.
"If it's so deadly serious," he asked, not relaxing a muscle, "why wait until we're at the castle? Just tell us what's going on, Ted." It was the fact the older man had chosen to look so young that bothered Jamie the most, he thought. There was no rational reason for it, he could see, unless the metamorphmagus was up to something. And the insistence on heading up to the castle first just screamed set-up to Jamie. While he didn't think Ted was the sort, too many things weren't adding up and it seemed like Ted was their only source of information at the moment.