[Good; he shouldn't be smiling. So Charlie just gives him a curt nod, muscle in his cheek jumping under the pressure of his set jaw.]
Thanks. [He knows she's a tough bird. A few days in a quiet room can't a have left her too badly off. But it's still solitary and they've spent the past year in one another's near constant company. A few days incommunicado feels like a bigger deal than it should never mind the part where it's been weeks since he had a normal conversation with Chloe. So yeah, maybe he's worried. But that's not something he'd say to either Roslyn or Sonya. That just leaves this.]
It's good to have you back, by the way. Sorry it's all a bit of a shit show at the moment.
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Thanks. [He knows she's a tough bird. A few days in a quiet room can't a have left her too badly off. But it's still solitary and they've spent the past year in one another's near constant company. A few days incommunicado feels like a bigger deal than it should never mind the part where it's been weeks since he had a normal conversation with Chloe. So yeah, maybe he's worried. But that's not something he'd say to either Roslyn or Sonya. That just leaves this.]
It's good to have you back, by the way. Sorry it's all a bit of a shit show at the moment.
[And that's all there really is, isn't it?]