He pales a little. "The good news? That's supposed to be good? Stay here while I wander toward the source." It's just worry talking, words that aren't anything more than sounds because he hates silence and he hates Nate being in danger even more.

Most of his focus instead is on coating the mechanism with ice and trying to prevent it from going off. Though he's fairly determined that he's not going to abandon Nate.

"How many rocks do you think you weigh?" He asks Iskandar.