[Deep breath in. Deep breath out. Don't snap at the guy giving you intel, especially when he sounds sincerely sorry about the whole joyride thing. Not his fault.]

[God damn why does this bullshit always come for him-]

[He puts a nail in that particular existential crisis and leaves it to hang with the others. He'll deal with that later, or possibly never; right now, he's still having a conversation.]

It's fine. It's intel - it doesn't have to be nice to be useful. Plus, it's not like we can do anything about it until we figure out who's pulling us in, right?

[Because if they could, he probably would've led with that. Instead, it had just been it can't stop us coming here, which might be all that anyone knows so far.]

Who's helping us? The Ministry?

[Yondu had said they'd been in contact with the Ministry, so it's Wash's best guess so far.]