"If you don't work for me anymore, should you really be drawing me a bath?" he asked, though with dry amusement, as he did indeed follow behind A-Yao. The mention of differing amenities had him thinking he might as well learn how to use them before he had to try and deal with them on his own.

He watched with overt curiosity as A-Yao started the bath, then at the question, he nodded and began to efficiently strip out of the clothes he'd only just put back on before their flight. Baxia he set next to tub, along with the qiankun pouch he'd found on his belt when he'd swam up to consciousness.

His greater preoccupation, however, was still on the detail dropped about a future he...wasn't sure he was going to get to, now that he'd been dredged up to the island. "Equal standing?" he asked. "You don't mean as sworn brothers."