I do to want to come with you!

I just--

I don't want to be a dead weight, or cause more trouble than you would have on your own, that's all.

And no, you were not gone that long, and I am very, very glad. Let me think. [ Sip tea. ] There was a creature, well, an entity, one of Lahabrea's failed experiments, that ended up in rather a fix that none of us could explain. Emet-Selch helped with it, but I think the unexpectedness of the occasion shook them somewhat.