Letting out a low whistle, Jess shook his head in solidarity. "Rough, of all the places." Anywhere with that extreme of conditions for a week no less, must have been hell to manage. She'd survived though. "Seems like those auror skills did you right, though." Jess likely only knew the half of it. He'd still been in school when Gabe had entered the training program for it, plus he really could only share so much. A three year program though, was extensive and likely prepared them for a wide variety of situations. An accidental portkey to the tundra likely hadn't been one of them, but the skills had to be applicable to a point.

"I doubt that, you came out alright, it seems." Though if Jess were honest with himself, she was probably right. Not to mention he was aware of the rudimentary magic needed to create a portkey. They learned quite a bit in training for the squad, including how to temporarily fix a splinching and some minor fixes for portkey incidents until those from the right department, trained more acutely for such incidents, could arrive. "I now understand the blanket cocoon." He added to levy the serious turn the conversation had taken. He doubted she wanted to discuss it much more, as she'd probably done so several times today.