Tseng considered his answer carefully at that, frowning just the slightest bit.

"Unfortunately, not much," he said, finally. "The assignment was presented to me not long before it was shoved at you, and while I did use all of my available time to prepare, there wasn't much beyond the basic, 'interdimensional nexus' available to me until I had more opportunity to investigate."

He'd listened to a lot of drunken squirrel blather after the fact.

He'd beaten his forehead against a wall a lot while he did so.