"... well. I meant to help." And it obviously wasn't working. He frowned a little, and couldn't hold back a sigh.

"Look, it isn't about what I think you should or shouldn't do." Not only about that, at least. "But there are practical reasons to let someone know when you're going off to do something like this. What if you hadn't been able to come back? We wouldn't even know where to start looking."