[ Okay, now he's got a rough idea of where to start, and what topic to dance around. He hasn't seen either Abel or Himeka since arriving to this new world, and he's not sure if he wants to mention them with how heavily their absence weighs on his heart. Again, an emotion that he loses control of as it makes itself known to the both of them. An emptiness, a worried ache.

He doesn't bother to rein this one back in. ]

Yeah, well. You ended up helping the Pleroma so that we could infiltrate Achamoth and get our friends out safely.

[ There's a fondness to his voice now. He may not know where Eustace currently stands, but at least he knows that the man is capable of doing the right thing when it counts. But it's the next part that has him hesitating, the warmth to his tone growing somber. ]

... We had some casualties along the way.