"A-Alice!" Don't go calling him out like that!

Then again, Alice and bluntness went together, Idia knew that. Even if it's a question he really didn't want to answer. Or didn't know how to answer... "I-I," A pause. A sigh. Then sounding more determined. "I have to go back." He can't just leave Ortho. He won't. Not with having a chance to go back. But being on the train... it was kind of freeing. The pressure of future responsibility was off him while on the train. He was just Idia here, not Idia Shroud.