[It's not like half the damn place doesn't already know, or at least suspect. It's fine. They can afford to be a little indiscreet right now when being close matters so much more.]

H-how far I've come just to find out if I survive this place that's what I'm goin' back to.

[He sighs and tries to force the tension from his shoulders. It doesn't really work.]

M'sorry. Thank you. I know you're tryin'.

[Mike and Wendy were too, he knows, but it was too immediate then. He feels kind of bad for how he acted toward them but it's done now, isn't it, just like everything else along his whole miserable timeline.]

Lord knows if I didn't have you I'd be on my second bottle already.