[ Krouse shoots Natsuno a sidelong glance, reserved and evaluating. ]

Your call.

[ Maybe someone else would get curious, push the topic. Even before, Krouse likes to think he'd be respectful enough to leave it alone - unless there was something to gain by pressing the issue. Home's a touchy topic.

He has another angle he's interested in following up on, anyway. ]

That's one way to put it. [ He'll pick up walking again whenever Natsuno does. ] Some people would have it the other way around. That it's on us to prove our worlds are worthy of surviving.