I don't know what ideas I'll be able to come up with, honestly. It's still rather jarring knowing I've been gone so long, but I know I can't piss about trying to find my footing again.

[Almost as an afterthought, he reaches to see if his journal came back with him -- and it did, of course. So he flips to the most recent entries, quickly skimming them.]

Can you think of anything else I should know? Or shall we head for the fight?