Dakota raised an eyebrow over his shoulder, smirking at her slightly. "So you managed to get up there all by yourself?" he said. "But you couldn't seem to manage to get back downstairs without managing to get yourself halfway around the castle?"
He was half teasing - he figured he could probably trace an easier route back to the owlry that wasn't halfway around the castle - but there was no sense admitting that.
"Suffer from short term memory loss?" he asked condescendingly.