[For a moment he’s blindsided by what can only be a joke falling from Ikora’s lips, because this is certainly not the time to be taking things in jest. It leaves him staring almost comically dumbfounded, but the moment that he’s certain that this isn’t some sort of jest his brows furrow and he sets his mouth in a hard line.]

You know that isn’t possible. We have a duty that we must hold to; as much as Cayde bemoans it, we can’t just ‘take a vacation’ when there are people counting on us.