[Ales shrugs.] I wouldn't worry about it too much. We were able to briefly return to one of our words recently, and some of them were frozen in the exact moment the Hero left them. Time passed for others, but...eh, what can you do?

[If Tieria was frustrated, Ales did not care at all about his own situation or others'.]

If you're angry, you can always take out your anger on monsters. Biggs loves it when we do anything productive.