It's a difficult thing to forced to stay behind when people you care about are in danger. Lambert may not have the connection Peridot does to Steven and Lapis, but substitute Strange and Childermass and it's easy enough to put himself in her position right now. If their positions were reversed? Lambert doesn't think he'd let himself be held back.

"He doesn't even see me," he says instead. "He saw you." And remembered what she'd done enough to deliver a threat. The Count of Crows sure didn't seem to remember some ordinary guy getting possessed by an Earth Spirit and rushing at him. He's just as much of a non-entity to the Count as he always was.

"I'm not going alone," he continues, arms crossed. "I'm bringing people who can hide a group, who have abilities that let them scan ahead. This kind of thing is my job -- what I'm trained to do."

She can't say the same, though he's not going to outright say that.