[Of course he shouldn't have been surprised by Kanda's usual directness. There's a familiarity about it that makes it all too easy for Link to fall right back into "business mode" right along with it, his expression returning to its signature stern one that's impossible to read.

It doesn't take a genius for him to understand what the other man is asking either. While he still hasn't quite come to fully grasp the odd way that time works in this place he can at least tell that Kanda is trying to figure out how much he knows. But even here he's still not going to tell the complete truth; doing so is unnecessary and could still possibly compromise his mission should they escape.]

I had followed Walker and Gill just as they encountered several Noah and the Millennium Earl. I saw Walker having difficulties keeping the Fourteenth under control but one of the Noah had intercepted me before I could do much more.