There’s a part of him, distantly, that realizes that Gandra is being far too casual for their last meeting to have been their first date - had it really been a date? He thought so, but - and he knows from Della and Drake that can arrive at different times.

But he’s too busy just staring at her for a moment, his face still flushed as he tries to get his beak to form a response. “A-Ah, um...a c-couple of months...being here...I mean...”

And he did indeed miss her, but he couldn’t seem to bring himself to admit it right now.