Well, not much reason to hide them...[Even as she flushes a little at the my, because she hadd been, hadn't she? And, yet, it all came out of that blank spot in her memories that still wraps warmly around him, holding on tight, like he'd been her rock, the thing that got her through whatever it was. His question makes her tilt her head, considering. Was she happy?] I thik so? It's all very...new. And strange. I saw the things that happened these past years, from his point of view, but I can't feel it. I know what I said, but not what I felt.

[She shrugs a little.] Much as I hate any of us being stuck here, I'm glad you're back. For Hope. She's missed you. So did I.

Elijah's a submissive again, which is just as abaurd. But we have a contract, so I could protect him, like you did me. Whatever else we were, or are, he's still family.