Jono's jaw clenched at that, if only a little. He clearly wasn't pleased at that idea, but he was hardly one to talk. If he'd run back, he would have wound up throwing rocks at it, or something.

"It would've been an unfortunate loss," he offered, instead. Because it was the truth, so far as he saw it. "Any plans now that you're here, instead?"

Not that anyone had been particularly big on plans, these days.