He scoffed. "You could entertain yourself in a different room of the small island that isn't mine." He muttered it under his breath, but small spaces with nothing to absorb sound did not favour a muttering remaining unheard.

He paced back over to the slipper and scowled down at it. A soak in a bucket of water maybe... He looked back to River. "I pick that you leave me alone. I'm busy."