[Billy be glad he's not even touching on the more personal matters. He frowns though because on the one hand, yes, having friends on the other side shouldn't be the issue here. On the other hand...]

We won't get caught. I've been talking to him a lot since August after my birthday and if anybody really has a problem with what's going on now they can talk to Shuck. I didn't ask him to tell me to go on this mission, too.

["I just accepted it."]

Jason thinks Shuck just wanted me dead. Loki thinks this is the stupidest thing I've ever done. [A pause...] And Jason and I sorta had a huge fight about it before I left. That's why his knife's down. And...Loki knows where I was going but I haven't really kept him up to date on stuff since I left.

I'm mostly going to Redgate to check out their resources and see what kind of answers I can find. Figured you'd wanna take a look, too. [There's more to it than that. Way more. But he's not sure how he feels about dumping so much of it on Billy or, likewise, how much Billy could take.]