[Yes, he was full of an abundance of caution after Kavinsky. But he was healing. It was a shock, but he was healing. Strangely enough, he was finding what he needed to heal here. That mattered to him, a lot. And that she cared, that mattered too.]

I'm full of worse. The little bit of time I had at home had WAY too much stuff going on. It was stressful.

[So what 'okay' was, happened to be hard to answer.]

I'm feeling... hopeful. How weird is that? Another place where I'm not supposed to be, and I'm hopeful. How stupid is that?

[He's got that stupid smile on his face. Came from the whole thinking of Balthier thing. And the same sort of stupid smile that he used to get over Damian. Dude is horribly transparent about some things.]

And now with you here, as weird as it is to be excited about that, guess the gang's back together.