[Maybe it's the movement that catches Odile's attention, or maybe it's the way the sun gleams off the metallic parts of some Loop's Pokemon... Whatever the case, she doesn't really hear anything of the answer she's given about the library. She ignores the trainer completely, in fact, leaning around her.]

'Frin?

At first, she smiles seeing them, because of course she does - she cares for them, and so the reaction is natural.

But it doesn't take long for that smile to... Not fade, exactly, but shift in a more curious direction. Last she saw Siffrin was with the rest of their companions, high up in the castle, after they'd all decided to keep traveling together a bit longer. After Siffrin's fears of being left behind and forgotten had come to light.

So it doesn't... make sense... that they'd hide?]