"We collaborated our research, I'm not sure how much she found out before disappearing if it's not something in my notes. I can have Jason get you whatever we did have, but it's not much." It wasn't much because it wasn't what he'd wanted to hear. "The researchers of the portal have most of the information already, there's a whole organization here dedicated to that line of work it barely compares to whatever we pulled up on our downtime." Researching the portal hadn't exactly been his highest priority once he found that it wasn't going to be sending people back against their will, supposedly.

"Maybe. If I don't try I won't know." Ed logic, what could possibly be worse than Purg at this point. He's extremely confident in the power of feeling displaced and winding up right back where he left off, at least that's what he's selling as his reasoning. He knows he'll be back because he's not actually going anywhere, just can't tell Keith that.