"Okay. Right," he nods. They'd been headed that way anyway, so that works. Mostly he's just nervous because she did disappear so suddnely last time.
"So what have you been doing?"
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"Okay. Right," he nods. They'd been headed that way anyway, so that works. Mostly he's just nervous because she did disappear so suddnely last time.
"So what have you been doing?"