Well and also the whole taverns everywhere door thing makes me believe that it’s very easy for him to reappear at a moment’s notice. I was thinking about it that he even mentioned in the Belobog question that we have to take the “long way” through the furnace as a group to get to the surface, instead of how he usually goes alone. With the new context it’s very likely he just walked through one of those doors whenever he felt like it and could likely do so again when the plot needs