A small huff, which might be a laugh.

"And pull you out when you insist on going that way anyway and fall into another hole."

But he looks back to Konstantin.

"Separating us definitely falls under 'manipulating by outside forces'," he says with a little bit of grump, but not directed at him, not hardly. "But while a body is... new, I'm hoping it will be helpful."

Even if a part of him is terrified by it for so many reasons.