Then you definitely know him better than I did. I had no idea he'd try to join up with us. [Sorey hadn't been particularly welcoming either, something he's not ashamed of, but wish he'd done differently. Zaveid had been trying to help in his own awkward way. They just...hadn't been able to accept it.]

He approached us, actually. Just outside Pendrago. [So, yeah. The very definition of 'too soon,' but considering the world is at stake they didn't have the luxury of taking the time to properly mourn.] Rose said you'd told her that if we didn't keep going, you'd...what was it? Kick our asses? [oooh he said a bad word]