He comes back a few moments later with the tools he'd been searching for. He might have purposely taken a little longer than necessary to find them, just to give himself those few seconds more to collect himself. Now that he knew about the collar, he was prepared to deal with it.

"Underwater?" He shakes his head a little, that sounded awful. Based on things he's heard from various people, it seems like as bad as Wonderland ever is, a trip home is almost always worse. "People are... often afraid of things they don't understand, but...it doesn't make you terrible or irredeemable, just because they're scared."

He talks while he fusses with the collar, brushing her hair to one side to get a better look at the mechanism.