He would've liked to help Zero speculate on what liquids worked best for the conversion, but he genuinely hoped he'd found the refinery before they left Theophany, if they had yet. It'd been left idle for so long, but it was still possible there was fuel within it that they could use.

Though what they would now do was beyond him. He supposed it wasn't much of a choice, for his own intent. He owed Zero his life, if nothing else. Even if he wanted to find the rest of the Circle, he couldn't do it alone.

"I see. I don't know how comfortable I could have been there now myself. Before my last memories, we had not been outside the walls in years. We never needed to leave."