Somehow this is getting away from him, becoming more fraught than he meant. Granted he doesn't know quite what he meant by starting to talk.

"Not leavin," he protests. "Just travelin."

It's not like it was when they left Teleios, after all. People know where they're going, they come back.

(Unless they don't.)

He wants to say more but doesn't, struck by the truth he's implied already. He doesn't think of leaving. If they could go home... he doesn't think about doing that.