[The water was at a boil, and Jack took care in preparing the tea in a rather simple pot. His interest had traveled back to the deeper meaning of the girl's appearance and the failed attempt to teleport the furniture.] I presume you were traveling using some form of magic or power. Do you have any ideas as to what could interfere with it?

[He was not a fool when it came to the basics of sorcery, at least for those who wielded it. For something to cause her to stray while in transit would require some higher power to halt her. That, or perhaps she had simply been clumsy and got lost. Again, Jack was not about ready to voice those particular assumptions.]