[ He shakes his head. The remorse is damn near palpable. ] ...I couldn't. I mean, I didn't have th' money to go off-planet let alone track 'im down... an' with Jethro still alive out there, I wasn't sure I should. If he caught me again, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't take any chances.
I, uh... I stayed behind. Waitin', doin' some bus boy work to keep m'self afloat. Couple o' weeks later this recruiter walked into th' bar I was workin' at an' we got talkin'. Turns out she was lookin' for volunteer relief workers for this civil war that was ragin' half-way cross th' planet.
I figured... if Helix wasn't comin' back and Jethro was still lookin' for us... maybe it wouldn't be so bad to disappear for a while. I went with her. That's where I've been for th' last ten months.