Great! Finding Mithos was already part of the plan, anyway. "Glad to know our goals align, then," Zelos grins, some of his anger lowered only through the joy of something finally fucking going his way. "I figured if anyone would have some sort of control over the situation, it'd be an Aegis. Like, I mean--two Aegises are better than one any time, right?" he laughs.

Kratos' next words stop Zelos in his tracks, though. The smile drops as he lowers his gaze, once again lost in thought while he tries to troubleshoot the next problem, to consider all of his options. It's true that travel time is the biggest issue here, and that the bigger the party the slower their progress will be--especially considering there's several humans with very basic and problematic human needs to take into account. A blade may go several days without food or sleep, for example, but a human cannot. Time at night that could well be translated into more ground covered is wasted sleeping, and the inherent need for food continues to put them in danger by forcing them to buy and trade in towns.

If they could somehow reduce all that travel time by reducing the amount of people traveling to Mithos in the first place...

Zelos raises his gaze to meet Kratos' once more, stance loose, expression questioning as he addresses the flesh eater before him once again. "You... You know where to find Mithos, right? Listen," he begins, voice careful and guarded. Arms still crossed Zelos shifts his weight from foot to foot, barely-contained excitement at the breakthrough he's made knocking on his core. "You and I are blades. Our travel time and distance could probably double just from the fact that we don't need to stop and eat or sleep as often as humans do. So..." Zelos trails off, wets his lips. Ignores the stab of guilt in his gut, takes a deep breath, and asks,

"What if--what if you were my driver?"