The question turned back on him just makes this all the more confusing, so Lambert shrugs. That little laugh at the end of that pronouncement might be a little concerning under other circumstances, but honestly, they just got out of hell and his sense of what he should and shouldn't be worried about is skewed so much right now he probably isn't the best judge of that.

"Who knows? Maybe they just didn't want to spend the money." Not that mages are short of it, but those with the most wealth can also be the most selfish with it, in his experience ... so it's not as much of a surprise as it maybe ought to be.

At any rate, it's obvious this guy is a vampire, and Lambert's already heard a little bit about the efforts some of the other turned carnival workers were up to, so he's going to take a wild guess...

"Were you trying to meditate?"