"To be fair, I haven't been here too long either. At least compared to some," Cal amends, watching as the man looks around. He can't help but nod in shared sentiment of it being long enough no matter how brief a time one found themselves here.

While not familiar with the device the man holds, the padawan assumes it's some sort of old-fashioned communicator. He's not sure what Jon expects for the silence that follows, but he does get a sense that there's some small flicker of hope in something.

"...wish I could say it was that easy, but I'm sure if it were, no one would still be here. We've all sort of been...hired by the former locals of this world- the Agrii." 'Hired' was putting it nicely. "They've designated us their 'heroes' to fix their city among other things. They... unfortunately just didn't give us much of an option otherwise."