Scotty's busier than he is right now, to be sure, though maybe it's just a different kind of busy. Sometimes Jim envies the engineer, who's free to tell everyone to screw off in favor of Working On Repairs, something that relieves him of 'Fleet politics with impunity. Jim never badgers him about it, though, not after the whole.. thing.. with the other man temporarily quitting due to his captain's shit behavior.

"Good." Cheerful. Maybe due to Altamid, this won't be wholly comforting-- but that's alright, too, because not everything in this line of work is going to be comforting. When Jaylah inevitably ends up offworld on assignment (perhaps on the Enterprise, if Jim gets his way), she's going to run into plenty of planets that are going to remind her of her prison, or be thrown into situations that will step on painful memories. Better to stretch that particular muscle somewhere safe ahead of time.

Once they're inside and suited up with safety ropes alongside the giant artificial wall, rubber hand-holds scattered around the entire way up, Jim looks over at her. "Weird, right?"