The mansion would fall silent, all the fun being arranged for the next weekend, and there was shock amongst the females, the man who wasn't due to return until Wednesday at least, was back home.
Shadow looked everyone over before signaling for the maids to bring his stuff to his room, each one had a bag of goodies from his travels, though it seems he has let his hair grow out, now sporting a beard, though he intends to be clean shaven for Noir's big day.
"Y-you're back early, why?" Asked Noir as she followed alongside him, worrying about certain others' reactions.
"I didn't see much point hanging around just to wait for a set day, so I'm back now, and I'd rather just get some rest on my bed, if she knows, she knows, but I will speak to her later." Explained Shadow, the maids would place the bags of gifts on a table in his room before leaving, they couldn't believe it either.
"...you aren't going to deal with things now?" It sounded odd to Noir, but Shadow would simply look at his cousin with a raised brow.
"I didn't spend most of my vacation pitying over her not being there, even if I try and say I actually thought about how we were and I admit to being terrible at reading her needs, do you really think she'd believe it?...come here."
Embracing Noir, Shadow wasn't after causing a stir just from returning, yet it was unavoidable.
"I will speak to her once the time is right, it'd be ideal to not draw attention to us just because we're in the same house, she CAN live without me you know."
Even with that reassurance, Noir wasn't sure, but she'd try to put some faith in Shadow, though no doubt the word had spread to Dead, and given the lack of Dead pacing over to call Shadow out, she was going to assume this news wasn't all that shocking that the man who lived her has come back.