Bruce sort of wishes he could be fleeting. 'Sort of' because he's in so deep now that he knows the notion of Baedal going unsolved, or the likes of Hasibe and Seoraj being left here, will nag at him. But it's slight.

"I wouldn't mind." Children underfoot. He always sounds so watered-down about these sorts of things, like he also wouldn't mind going for a coffee, or something; it's hard to tell if he's trying to make a joke or if he just recognizes the utter futility of such ideas in context with his own life so clearly that he only glances at them in an abstract fashion.