"I...wha?"
What?
Seriously, what?!.
Not that he'd object to having someone to talk to other than Maddox, of course, but she was cutting it very fine if she wanted to get up into the tundra and back. A one way trip was a different matter (it might be good for him to winter up there...convince his mother he was still a good son!) if not for the fact that he simply couldn't imagine her being happy in Hyoite over winter. Shut up with dozens of other people, their belongings, their bodily substances and their various unsavoury habits...she'd punch someone senseless in the first three days!