"Well. Only one in a long line of planets on fire if we lose the war we're fighting." He sounds cavalier about it. More than anyone would really expect. It's in the under tones of his words. The secondary vibration of them. I hate it, I'm afraid that second vibration says. Or it would, if he were speaking to another turian.

Something does lighten though, when the subject turns to the updates. Maybe it's in the tilt of his head, or the flex of facial plating.

"So it's not really going home. It's more like a lucid dream kind of thing?" he asks. Not quite what he'd been hoping to hear, but better than nothing.