Yuri sees Jade's gentle attempt to - well, not outright change the subject, more steer it onto a somewhat adjacent track - for what it is and. Well. He'd rather not be talking about this at all, but he's having difficulty articulating that through the hummingbird panic thrumming through him, so he'll take it and be grateful.

"Maybe I'm just an outlier," he says, trying for humorous. His ears are ringing, a bit, for no physical reason, so he isn't actually sure how far it falls flat because he's trying to reorient his brain into actually being functional. "Above the curve, so to speak."

Okay, that was a terrible joke.

He turns to Asch and sends him a weak smile. "Sorry," he says. He isn't sure if he's apologising for the grab, for asking for more details in the first place, or both. It's up to Asch to decide how he takes it, he guesses. "That's just...a bit of a sore topic for me. You've probably already figured it out by now, but...I didn't exactly become a flesh eater willingly. And no, it wasn't my driver. He's fine."

He shakes his head, then looks at Jade. Another point in the Aegis column, huh? His next question he addresses to the room:

"Say I am an Aegis," he says. "Like. What's the next move, past presumably getting out of here?" Yuri's not usually a plan guy. But hey, sometimes you need a little bit of stability in your life.

Yuri feels like he needs to cash in a few decades worth, right now.