Her first call could be missed - her more urgent pleas, less so. His vision focuses, with the sensation of not being fully certain where he is as he wakes. For a moment it feels like it should be among grass and towering stone, but then... no. It's a cell. And here, he knows who he is.

And who Kay is as well. His last memory is of her in the Horizon, in a context free from Thorne's trappings. Now that there back here, though, everything is a lot more complicated.

...But he's not completely capable of ignoring her concern. It clashes against the knot of irrational resentment in his gut. Had she really thought they were dead this whole time?

"Kay," he acknowledges roughly, slowly shifting to a less vulnerable pose. "You've risen up in the world."