"I didn't have a problem with him before." Eric looked at his wife with a raised eyebrow. "Why should I have need of being unkind now?"
He wasn't really sure why they were going to the park, or what exactly was going to happen. But she had asked him to come, and so he had agreed. He wanted his wife happy, and to top it off, she'd promised that it would be interesting.
"It hasn't stopped following me every time I go outside in days." His voice showed that he was fairly unamused by this turn of events. "And I don't wish to know if the castle is also some kind of sentient building. Just ... if they're talking, you keep it between you three. I can't take another pet home."