Alfred nodded at Lady Helena as she meandered into the Spirit Room in that delicately graceful way she usually possessed. "As well as I can be," he said softly. Instead of pacing, seeing as he was a ghost, the Friar was floating to and fro when the Baron arrived. He said nothing to the Baron besides giving him a nod of his head. His hands rested atop on his rather round tummy as he floated!paced.

"I think they're all okay. We will live!" Not him, not literally. The students, though, would live. They would be fine, even if it had been very rude.

The Baron wasted no time, though. "Baron," he said softly. "I am frightened of what they will do if we deny them this right." That's right, he said a right. Everyone had the right to love and be bonded, even poltergeists.