Follow along now

"-Now just like any other place,  we have rules here, you follow?" The bird held a feather up, indicating that he was speaking with the upmost importance. Following closely behind was a short, stubby little pup and her little firefly companion friend, trying to keep up with the fast paced bird without stepping on his tail feathers that were being dragged along the wooden floor. For such a small bird, he was sure accustomed to walking on the ground

"I'm following~" She replied, thinking that he was making sure that she was following along behind him, not... following on what he was talking about.

"Why of course you are, that's what I told you to do, why, if you weren't following you wouldn't be listening and if you weren't listening then you wouldn't know the rules i'm about to tell you and if you didn't hear about those, then the whole place would be in chaos, we'd have rule breakers everywhere and madness upon us all and then the whole place would fall apart and then what would we do? We'd be letting rebels unleashed into the other world beyond the walls and then I'd be held responsible for it all. It's hard being in charge you know-"

"But there's only you Polko and me here... and Bugby here too" Negi pointed out to him as she paused momentarily to peer inside a half opened door, only to find that that room too was empty as had most of all the other rooms they had passed.