He shakes his head, looking at the floor. "He got out," he says. "But I couldn't help him."

He's silent too, now, but it's an agitated silence, like he's trying to decide whether to say something.

"...Me and him and some other guys... we left Alternia so we wouldn't have to... you know. But then all that shit happened anyway." He glances up at the other troll again, his brow furrowed, his eyes bright with a sort of regretful determination. "That's why I've got to at least take a shot at trying to unfuck everything back there, you know? If we can't just fucking escape..."