Yes, I think we're veering farther from the path of good times ahead. If that's even possible.

[ The degree and manner of the danger awaiting them is, of course, the big awful unknown in all of this. He's at least semi-comforted knowing that no one else is any less distressed or anxious just waiting for it all to happen. ]

What did you make of what happened when we passed through the portals leaving Ikorr? Those words, you are awaited. Lovely if it means we're invited to a fancy dinner party with games and dancing, but it's obviously anything but.