[There's an even more prolonged pause; if Rude was terrible at phrasing his advice with normal situations, it's giving him a bit of a headache to cover the messed-up time aspect that they're confronted with. He'd never really told Valeria about what happened at the end of their confrontation with the first Avalanche, but that's mainly because it didn't particularly matter; they still won.
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But if it's something terrible then...
...is it something he should know?