A nod back to Cedric, and the ghost of a smirk flickers over Teren's mouth at the sight of Blanche's perseverance. Good girl.

It takes her a moment to answer at all, to the point where it may even seem as though she didn't hear the question: her eyes fix on some nondescript part of the ground as she falls completely still, like her entire body is working to process the thought.

"Unfinished business," she finally says, quietly, without looking back at Cedric. She doesn't know this man; he has no right to her truths, to her pain.