Of course. And the Empress is never without her Emperor.

[It's entirely different from how this started. From being the welcome wagon, to this sort of circling, testing... How far will it go?]

Yeah, you could probably consider it one. We didn't know time stopped back home until about a month after we got here, though. [So there was a lot of worry. Minato's chosen to believe it because he refuses to accept the idea that the Seal may be broken.]