In his defense, he’d pointed it out the day she’d turned back, too. They’d just promptly been distracted by welcome-back sex and then he hadn’t really gotten into explaining how weird that whole week had been.

“A whole bunch of anthropomorphic animals just kinda showed up and declared they lived here now? I was waiting for the other shoe to drop for a couple days but,” he shrugged. “Turns out they really were harmless. Town Hall was taken over by a talking raccoon named Tom Nook,” yes that was a real sentence he’d just said in all seriousness, let that sink in, Verity. “Anyway. Their presence pissed Tamsin off enough that she took off, and then not too long after that, Jesse showed up.”