It's not the first time Squall has beaten a hasty retreat from an enemy that would have proven to be difficult. Nor does he really comment about Lightning's apparent irritation. He might not be really good at empathy even on a good day, but he's been in similar enough places to where she is that he can at least mostly recognize what it looks like from the outside. And in either case, it's not like commenting on it is really going to get him very far either, although he does off a polite nod to Fang if and when she does drop back to keep an eye on him.

(He might not really know who any of these people are, but they seem to know more about where this is than he does, and he figures the least he can do is be relatively polite.)

Unfortunately, the question that Lightning asks isn't exactly one that he can easily answer. That there has to have been somewhere is something he doesn't doubt. But the details are frustratingly vague even now, and he's pretty sure that's going to make this conversation a whole lot more frustrating for everyone involved.

"I'm not sure," he answers, with a shrug. "I know I was somewhere else, before turning up here, but it's not there when I try to remember where."

He doesn't even have so much as a name to go on, just a feeling that this is somehow not where he should be.