[ He was quiet a moment, tilting his head back to look off into the distance.

He brought his hand up and settled it on Gen's head, warm and solid after a moment. ]

I'm not dead. [ He sounds incredibly certain about that. ]

I'm annoyingly hard to kill. [ A small smile pulls at his lips. ]

So. I'm not dead. Don't kill me before my time. I'm sure I didn't send you into the lion's den with nothing, no way to communicate, or at least get communication. They'd have told you.