'Writing-thing' was it? Well, there was only one thing that could be and it wasn't precisely something he'd wanted to misplace. Especially not with the situation being the way it was.

"Well, I suppose we can't have that. Did you happen to see where this 'something' went?"

For now he'd ignore the comment about them all being there. After all, it was fairly obvious so there wasn't any need to mention it.