The question leaves him smiling, waving a hand.

"We're guarding the lord I find more troublesome, and lacking as I may be in some ways, surviving this forest and it's energies is something I can do. Take care, ah? I'd say scream if you run into trouble, but there's too many of those to make out. Qi flares would be more reliable."

A shrug of his shoulders, and he tenses, ready to spring forward, off this tree and up into another one, continuing to avoid the forest floor for now. Overhead, dark clouds mottle the skies to unhappy browning grey, and in the distance, the volcano rumbles the ground, a sleeper twitching under the influence of dreams yet begun.