He manages a somewhat sincere, but sad, smile, managing to get over his own burst of emotion for the moment. It's kind of complicated, but he really doesn't actually want to go home yet. Even if he does miss it, and even if this is scary.

"I had to protect my dad," he says. "He was gunna get stuck here, so I made a deal so I could stay with him, and so that he'd be protected. It's only for a year. That's just like a vacation, right?"

For Lapis more than him, he would think.