It was a silly way to think, but he had seen such thinking before. It happened, in times of stress, and with what sounded like a war looming and several enemies possibly pressing in, the ability to think in grays became much harder.

"We'll see about that when the time comes," he shrugged. He might want to be of service to them, he might not. It was to early for him to say, but he had a feeling that, at some point, he would be in the thick of it. It was just whom he was. "In the mean time, I'd just do what I've been doing - hiding the shard. And maybe trying to sleep a bit more." His mouth twitched in a half smile.