"I think I picked up on that much," Lambert confirms, with a small frown. It's also what he'd seen, with Koel and Zecora bound up ... not a pretty sight. Though what he's seen of them suggests they've recovered quickly enough, or at least quicker than Joker.

Then again, they also hadn't had their physiology forcibly altered. Even beyond what it already has, at any rate. Lambert sizes up Joker's wooden hand with idle curiosity. Reminds him of a leshen, he thinks, but it's only the one arm...

"Is it worth it, staying so long?" He doesn't mean to ask, really, it just sort of comes out naturally. Ringmaster's offer's been sitting at the back of his mind, an open-ended question he can't shake off.