The nod is answer enough, and the determination and desperation makes so much more sense in context. He'd be going out of his mind if Endon or Orion had ended up here, in danger, and he couldn't find them. He reaches out to take Essek's hand, to comfort him, and stops- no, Essek had pulled away once already, don't make it worse- and drops his hand into his lap instead. Gods damn it all, why isn't there more he can do?

But focusing on that isn't going to help Essek any, and the least Ryo can do is keep him stable enough to recover. "We'll find him," he says gently. "You turned up - I'd imagine he will too." At which point it's a matter of a friendly face finding him and hiding him before anyone who would do him harm does the same. That's...he doesn't know what the odds of that are, but worrying about it isn't going to help at the moment.