"Yeah, with something like that there really isn't much middle ground, if any. I was expecting him to be mad or upset, and when he wasn't, it was such an incredible relief."

She smiles, hearing that! "That's great! I hadn't seen you around a whole lot lately, and had wondered how you were doing." Now that he mentions it, they do seem rather pale. Then again, she is herself a lot of the time. "They don't like to leave?"