[The Carta. Fantastic. Even fucking better. Vandelin's no stranger to parting on sour notes--he honestly can't recall a single relationship he's ever had, familial or platonic or otherwise, that hadn't gone that way--but it does soothe just a few of his angrily ruffled edges that Kit isn't simply withholding information from him because he doesn't think Van merits it. It's not a net positive, when it only makes him feel all the more sick to think of Kit going into this half-blind and ill-prepared.]

Yeah, I miss you too. I'd rather it not be a permanent state of being.

Just...find out more before you go, all right? Anything you can. Even I know what kind of reach the Carta has.