He released a breath he didn't know he'd been holding when she said it wasn't Vulcanus. Or the OTO. Or whoever they were calling themselves. He hated that he was giving these people so much control over him by being so...afraid of them. He couldn't help it. For the moment, he tried to just. Be glad that they weren't what Ruka was talking about. So it was just garden variety dumb stuff, not world-endy dumb stuff. That was fine. He was pretty sure he could handle that.

"Okay. Okay. I'll chill out here in Heropa," he said. "Is there, uh. Anywhere particular y'want me to wait?"