"It is unlikely to be this," he means the cup, obviously, once more laying in pieces. Sure, it's funny when magicked dishware runs through the halls once or twice, but it's a stand-in for a person. Which means this is not a great result. In fact it's a pretty bad result.

"But something."

He's having much more progress on the communication front, but even that's impossible to field test without actually going into the field. Trying to yank people out of the fray seems like it's not going to work - or just have them show back up in a dozen pieces that will never reform properly again.

"You didn't volunteer, did you?" Jax looks familiar in that 'grr arg American, probably guns' way from his network browsing, but Severus doesn't think he's one of the people involved in this particular bad idea.