[It's true, that it's a bit unexpected when Rita doesn't rise to the prodding in the end--a sense of something off-kilter that apparently just isn't going to abate anytime particularly soon, no matter how much either of them might try to alleviate it. But that's--fine. It'll be fine, eventually. Hopefully. ...Not much else to be done, when it's not exactly as if there's guidebooks to refer for these sorts of things. A Close Friend Vanished For Four Months But Reappeared: How Do I React? I Vanished For Four Months That I Don't Remember and Everyone's Upset: How Do I Fix This?]

Well, naturally, I do so very hate being behind on anything for too long. --And I spoke with Yuuki first, before anyone else, so between him and a few others I've started to pick up some details. [Lots of breezing along happening all around, here, let's keep it up. Stepping into the stairwell, and waiting for Rita to catch up before starting on it:] A rocket that was not weaponry, though, is that so? Perhaps we're speaking of a rather different sort of device entirely, then, from what came to mind for me. Old military habit, alas. [...Hm.] Supplemented by magic...did you contribute? With sigils, I suppose? I take it Theodora is still inert, presently...

[Seeing as the blastia had been inert just yesterday--to him. The words come out before Jade reminds himself of the months that have passed in reality yet again, though, and with this realization a part of him does suddenly wonder if perhaps anything actually did change on that front--]