"'m fine," she said, standing up again and -- oh. Arms. Arms were so very nice for this sort of thing and she was going to lean into them. Like so. Hi there.

"Mel took off. Save the world, gotta do this myself. So we caught up with her. Lots of demons and lurks to slice up, that part was cool, then the gateway closing and poof, Mel was gone. Then we were back behind the waffle house again but she called and said she's not dead. Just in her own timeline again. Uh. So ... it's all okay. Right?"

As if he'd followed that. She wasn't sure she had.