"Sure as I can be." Said with all the calm he can muster. It's not really a lie - there's wiggle room in that statement, but hopefully not enough to make Lapis worry more than she already is.

J pauses before speaking again; he's not quite sure what Lapis is talking about. There's the recent attack on Virgo, yes, but she sounds more...faraway than usual, as though her mind is somewhere else, beneath the waves where he can't reach. The best he can do now is clarify. "Are you talkin' 'bout here or somethin' else?"