Well the patience score didn't seem especially high, but given the situation perhaps it didn't seem especially low either.

Aurus gave the boy a mild sort of look. The sort of look that said What 'what'? without conceding that his consideration needed any sort of explanation whatsoever. He stayed right where he was, his posture unchanged. This was his cave, after all.

It wasn't worth just maintaining the silence for the sake of it though, and presently he decided to begin posing a few questions, as much to see the attitude with which they would be received as to learn what the answers would be. He started with an easy one:

"Do you remember how you got here?"