"I've been here for about two months now, and I haven't seen anyone else. How did you all vanish before I got here?" A part of him is glad that they're probably all safe back home, but boy, does he miss them. And of all the people to be brought back here, he wouldn't have wanted it to be Pidge.

He gives her a smile. It's not doing much good standing around and wishing neither of them were there, but he's resigned to making the most of it.

"We can at least try for as normal as possible."

He'd noticed that she had no mark, and he's at least very relieved by that fact. He may already have a contract in the works, but now he'll have more ways to see Pidge with fewer restrictions. "Oatmeal raisin being passed off as chocolate chip would be significantly worse."