[ He picks up with a little smile. It's still strange having someone whose calls he looks forward to after all this time, but he's rolling with it. ]

If you think you can get it down here before it melts. But---

[ He opens his mouth, hesitates. Everything that had happened to Marik back then had been about his family's duty to the pharaoh, right? That conversation from a few weeks ago is still clear in his mind.

When he does speak, his voice is softer. ]

There's something I have to tell you. Think you can hurry straight here?