“Oi! T-take it easy!!” Muse stuttered nervously, stumbling backwards not only from Callum physically shoving him but also from his questions which seemed to have their own weight to them, harshly pushing him backwards. Overwhelmed with questions from both Callum and Books, he could hardly bring himself to speak. “N-now listen… I don’t have the answers to… to all of those…” he answered hesitantly, still being bombarded with questions. 

That said, hearing Kole speak up and try to calm the girl down took a huge weight off his shoulders. “Thank you…” he told Kole. “We should really try to keep ourselves together.” he continued, eyes landing softly on Rae. Then, to the others, “He’s right, you know. One question at a time.” 

He took a deep breath before thinking through said questions individually. “I hardly know anything about the GM.” he spoke to Callum first. “I know he’s a massive a-hole who can apparently influence the site out in the ‘real’ world, and he has immense powers he can use to shape this one, as well, but that’s really it. I don’t know where he came from, or anything.” Muse explained. “I mean, the potential in his powers almost reminds me of our kinds of abilities — but I highly doubt he’s a roleplayer. He even said his powers are of a ‘different breed’ so, yeah.” he shrugged. 

“And I… have no idea, what’s become of you all, back home…” He continued slowly, painfully, turning to Books. “I mean uh… I see no reason why your families and such would’ve forgotten you. I’m sure they still know who you are. Trouble is… well, whether it was only your mind that got sucked into here or your entire self is hard to say, but either way that makes you kind of… missing, back home.” he explained awkwardly, his eyes locked on the ground before his feet for more of the explanation. “I’m sorry…” Muse didn’t even bother to bring up the whole matter of the flow of time being off, as, if anything, more time had probably passed in the real world than in the Guild world, so, who knows how long it would seem like they’d been gone… 

He paused for a bit before continuing. “As for what we should do now,” he turned to Rae. “Well, like I said, we should start by finding a better place to discuss these things… Right now we’re in the middle of a wide-open desert, apparently filled with monsters. We should find a place with a bit more cover.” Muse then pointed to the patch of green land visible in the distance. “That looks like it could be a forest of some kind. We should probably move.” he advised softly, placing a hand on her shoulder. “Let’s walk and talk, eh?”