He wasn't surprised at all when Swamp Elf's house turned out to be a rat trap. Keeping a healthy space between himself and Hakkai, Gojyo followed the man up to the porch, but no further, pausing at the bottom of the (apparently as rickety as they looked) stairs.

"So I hear." Somewhere along the walk he'd ended up with a twig (Sha Gojyo had trouble keeping his hands to himself, he'd discovered, and Sha Gojyo always needed something in his hands to fiddle with) and he rolled it between his fingers like it was a cigarette. "That's what I wanted to talk to you about. I don't really want to vanish, you know?"