"Give up?" Kiri repeated, frowning at the professor. She'd have thought that he would prefer it if she didn't tax his time and patience longer than necessary, or root around in his stuff too much, especially considering how strange her request had been in the first place, but if he was fine with it... Kiri would have risen to the challenge - whether it really was one was, of course, a different question entirely - but she was almost late to her next lesson. And anyway, she thought, a little petulantly, it wasn't as if she really felt like spending that much time on it.

She waved a hand. "You don't need to do that, Professor," she said, shaking her head. "I'm sure you have better things to do than search your office for something that might not even be there." Kiri began fishing around for the strap of her bag under the chair. "I'll just tell your, er, colleague that I haven't found anything. That there probably isn't anything to begin with." Even though Professor Duskurk had seemed pretty sure of that. Strange.

Her hands caught the rough material of the bag. Pulling it out, Kiri said, "If you do find something, of course, it'd be good if you let me know. Thank you very much for your time." She smiled briefly and got to her feet. "And help." With a little wave, Kiri turned around and left Professor Svensson's office. Now to report back to Professor Duskurk...