Well, now you've met one other person. So you don't need to work alone anymore if you don't want to.

[ Is she conveniently leaving out that apparently he's run into Verso, or just assuming he didn't give her companion the time of day? ...Is it both? Who knows! But Sciel gives a wry kind of smile anyway, as she's pretty sure that's going to be rejected offhand.

Used to working alone? Yeah, she knows the type. They were just talking about one of those, right? ]

Besides, we're not too sure what this place has in store. It'd be nice to be able to walk back the way we came and wander back home... [ Maybe not for him, but for her. ] ...but that's not going to be realistic. So we're stuck here for the foreseeable future.

[ And that's the worst part about it. She's on a timer, after all. Less than a year before the number changes. And if Verso's here with her, then that's two less people in the expedition that's currently trying to succeed. It's a mess. Dwelling on it, though, would be worse; a darkness too deep to wade into. ]

And we've got a car debt to pay.

[ Says the person not likely to pay the debt back. ]