Rua blinked a couple times as nothing came over the speaker. It was a good thing the silence came before she mentioned the porter, because otherwise he might've just taken the quiet as a go-ahead to head back to the porter and just go to this place right now. As it was, he only got a couple steps before that "but-" came through and he stopped. By the time she was saying she needed to tell him stuff before he went there, he was already trying to hold back a groan - "stuff you needed to know" teleported pretty cleanly to "crazy porter shit" or something. He picked up the strain in her voice and before he knew it, there was a dryness in her throat. The same dryness that always came up when he thought about....one thing. In particular. He shook his head a little. He had one question he couldn't wait to ask. When he asked, his voice went quiet, like he was afraid of the question and the answer.

"...does it have something to do with Vulcanus?"