Time distortion would certainly be to their benefit... Eorzea may have fallen to ruin if all of the Scions had been away for as long as it felt like for them. In fact, he's certain that was part of the entire point. Their world would have been doomed had they not acted, and though he still doesn't fully understand rejoining, he knew that eliminating the Black Rose project had been part of it, somehow.

Perhaps their own world makes similar ripples into this one. He wishes he knew. For now, he supposes he can take some inspiration from the conduct of the other Scions... to use this time to learn, and to plan for what they can.

Though he feels some amount of direction now, there is something that he can't help but worry about.

"I believe they will," he says, quietly, privately. "But I yet worry... for Alphinaud. Given what he's just faced... I take no comfort in what he may experience now."

He'd rather have not sworn on at all than to swear himself to the Scions and immediately vanish.