[Not the most ideal topic to bring up but the other has a way about him as to figure things out, at time. So there hadn't been any point in trying to fib.]

It's a wonder if the Lessor has control of the weather.

[But there are people who have the job to predict and track weather...]

Following orders from a book and with it having the knowledge... It does remind me of something from home.

[Maybe that is why he hadn't been perturbed right away as he should have been but even then with how things were back at home he hadn't been walking around with believing every word and future case, either.]

It's more than likely pointless to dwell on the past like that when we have something else to keep watch of.