[Ken's silence here is tense. For all that thinking he usually gets up to, there isn't a peep from him even with their minds linked. It's all emotions right now, welling up in his chest and making Kala-Nemi shift restlessly in his mind.

Eventually, he speaks up.]

I'll introduce you when I get you back. Both of you. Right now, that's all I can think about -- if I can't get you back, then none of this matters.