[It's a relief to see the Kid come back considering the disaster that has been the past few days, and it shows in the way Zulf's shoulders ease up a little even as he sighs at the joke.]

That would be easier to deal with, Lemaign only knows. [He glances back to the rest of the Bastion, gingerly touching at his eye.] But no, once again I have gotten into things with a Mancer.

It's good that you've returned. We... might have to talk about things with the rest of the Bastion sooner than we thought. It turns out that I may have had a reputation in the Mancers, and now Nathaniel believes that the Calamity was my fault.

[Some of his hate creeps back into those last few words, and the Kid ought to be able to figure out why. With the Bastion's original purpose, the very idea of purposefully causing the Calamity is enough to make him sick with rage.]