The Soldier won't dive too deep into questioning; with words like possession it must be deeply personal. And if there's one thing he understands more intimately than a lot of people it's how violating it feels to be forced to act against one's will.

Billy's posturing causes a ripple of camouflaging color to wash through the Soldier's skin, but he reminds himself that Billy's not a threat. At least, not to him. A reaction to thoughts of what they may find in their excursion is only natural. And there was the very real possibility that the dark hole might not be so dark or so deep once it was lit up.

"Mm-hm. We'll check those next, if we can't find a light at the Sent Her. I'm still rebuilding them." He'd given up years of his own hoarded supplies in the wake of the volcano; it would take him some time to rebuild those stashes.