Jon frowns, feeling very caught between a rock and a hard place. Of course this was something that'd have to come up, at some point. He'd hoped it wouldn't be on the first day, but he isn't exactly a historically lucky person.

"Nothing to do about it now," Jon agrees, trying to push past it without addressing home in either direction. He lets Neil keep the hand he took hold of, curling his own - a silent gesture, an assurance. A conversation later.

"Not like we haven't got enough of our own problems to deal with, anyhow. Any Extinction problems will simply have to wait their turn, the line's gotten terribly long as-is."