He gives a brief hum of acknowledgement. "It might be easier to think of John as renting space in our reality. He's not a being that naturally belongs here, so he need somewhere to live. And without his new body, he was dragged back into mine, so we were still together back home. I was still blind."

He shrugs a shoulder idly. "Thanks to memories we got from a very early flood, we knew that we were supposed to be home for- perhaps three months and change. Thanks to John remembering that where I didn't, we were only gone for a little over one month. And... we got separated by the King, somewhat forcibly. After which I came back to the Barge briefly, but I was only here briefly before I- went back, our bond does work ways, but... it went poorly, basically. We both came back to the Barge at around the same time, independently. We were only gone for a week here, overall."