[Rick, calm your tits, Asch is a professional and even his replica could carry a person down a mountain with no trouble. There's a grumpy noise.]

I've had worse marches. It's not raining, the ground is even, and so far there's not anything trying to eat us.

[If they were anywhere but the Tower, that last would seem like a distinctly Auldrant danger.]

I crossed a continent on foot at ten years old. Through a marsh. Alone. I can handle carrying a small person for two or three days.

[Ion, you attempts to smooth the situation over are no unappreciated, they're just kind of ineffective.]