"That bad, huh?" Without needing to be asked, he started jogging in place as well, and after a moment started heading off in the general direction of away from the entrance.

The question caught him a little off guard, and once again he had to consciously take a moment to compose himself, shooting a sort of nervous glance over the inmate. The answer was obvious - more obvious then it had ever been, honestly - but didn't want to just totally spill his guts to him right now, especially not with the little voice that kept telling him there was something wrong about this. Not wrong like forbidden, necessarily, but just... not accurate.

But the answer was still obvious, so in a hopefully casual tone he responded "Yeah. Why?"

He was weirdly concerned about the answer.