((Wait like Kianne explains everything at dinner or something?? What I don't remember))

However Elio's narrator is wondering where exactly Kiaane is walking. Is it to one of the entrances to the castle??

(y'all need to figure out how to communicate where they are through descriptions I'm just saying)

(Hmm, well, I'm not too sure about specifics, but yeah, I think they'd be wandering to the castle.)

More specifically, Kiaane's probably wandering to the kitchen/place the family cooks in search of coffee. At the same time, they subconsciously reach for their canteen, which...isn't there.
Huh. Their hand closes around empty air.

Kiaane stops, their fist still clenched around where their canteen isn't. Perhaps that canteen was one of the first impressions Martin ever had of them, too, but now, they turn around slightly without it to regard the child--well, perhaps, he's now a pre-teen, no longer a child.
It's not as if Kiaan would've looked at him any different if he were younger or older. Their gaze is still the same--calm on the surface but as if with something else brewing underneath the surface, as if storm clouds nearing a horizon. But perhaps unlike what Aereon and Elio usually see of them or have ever seen of them, they take the initiative to speak about something that is not needed. No other acknowledgment to how long it has been since their last meeting. No other indication of what they may feel. Just three words:
"Are you coming?"

(sijdfikijofIJJIODSJOF posted 1 second before Time lol)

(My visualization of that post--a walking cardboard with black hair and eyes)

Kiaane probably didn't, to be honest. They had started forward again as soon as Martin started after them. 
In the other thread (because there's not really another way of specifying their encounter), both Kiaane and Martin were a handful of years younger. Presumably Kiaane was still a teenager. Now, even as an adult, they retain their leisurely yet consistent pace as they start to the kitchen.

(Going to respond to Time's post now)

Kiaane's actually efficient in finding where is where. They do go through like 2 rooms to find it, but they do find the kitchen. Their base assumption being that no one would really wait for them, they make a beeline towards where they presume the coffee is, their gaze aligned as straight as it could be towards their destination. Hopefully they don't offend that mage.

((Bruh))

"It is wonderful. Yet unexpected." Elio nods, "But I'm still perplexed on how they don't look a day over 20. Or how even they got here."

The mage that ended up waiting for them was Ignas. He was leaning on the table that the ingredients for coffee sat on. He was still was eyeing Kiaane.

"I sometimes forget how hard it is sometimes to communicate with them." He sighed, "Of course I guess we just need to be patient for answers."

Ignas just flashed a look to Martin before returning to Kiaane.

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((No I'm just somehow dumb my brain isn't working I'm currently paying attention to something else let me edit that.))

Ignas spoke up to Kiaane, "So you were alive this whole time. Hm?"

"You got to just wonder around while the rest of uh had to experience death, yeah?"

"How can they not be sure of something so blatantly obvious?" Ignas shot back.

"We... all died."

"Kiaane must have been busy with other things!" Martin blurted out at Ignas. "You know Kiaane is very loyal to us all!"

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The young mage pressed his jaw tight as he replied between his teeth. "I don't know, but I want to trust that there was a good reason for that!" He threw out his arms. "So they're here now, and that's what matters! Those were the words your parents said!"