Thomas looked at Jake in confusion. "You kidding," he asked, as he shook and moved the now unarmored limb, no sign of any dark wound present. "It's all fine, as good as new. I was out walking around and the armor just fell off," he explained. Hopefully they would accept that excuse, though he was unaware of the people who'd known of his darkness there. 

"Told yah," he added to anyone who had thought that something was off there, or who had questioned why he still had the armor on. 

Moving on, they stayed in Sugar Rush for the rest of the day, enjoying the candy, talking with the people, and making sure that everyone from this world was doing alright. At the same time though, he took the opportunity to study, practice, and learn the spells that he had gotten from Serin. Knowing Stone and Aqua would be useful for the future after all, since he had to get stronger. He added to that with a new spell, one that had taken a lot of work to do, but would prove useful. He could make that assumption with Blink, which would make illusionary copies of himself, a skill useful in combat.

Sadly, he never did get to speak with Calhoun alone, since she was busy with Felix, or the group, or going back to her world or somesuch, so he missed his chance to ask how she did it, as the experienced one. He had the feeling that he'd regret that later on, but there wasn't much he could do about that. 

He did pick up some items, health stuff, and a new ring, and got to sleep, but eventually they had to leave. Goodbyes were said, and they set off. Well, except for Joshua and Amaya, who went through a Corridor of Darkness. Surprisingly to him though, there was no pain from the transit, which he was grateful for. 

At last they arrived at the world, seeing a huge expanse of water except for a few scattered islands and a few buildings on those islands. Coming in for a landing, he hopped off to see Yukio approaching them, and he swiftly remembered the guy from when Nagi had left the group. "Hey Yukio," he said in between introductions, and addressed the other thing he mentioned. "Yeah, we got held up by....stuff." He'd heard what happened, but couldn't really comment on the asskicking. Of course, given his arrival before he'd had to tell them that the same thing happened to him, but their thing was more important anyway.