...You know, fair. The real question is whether the timeline bullshit is the kind where she thinks he's dead.

"Hey." His smile's already gone, but honestly, he's glad to see her too. From his end, it's been years (he didn't even get to see her stint as a dungeon construct, being stuck at the other end of that mess from where 'she' was needed), and besides, she's both a SEES person and one of his friends.

(It's still damn weird that he's more than doubled his friend count and not wind up with a crush on any of the new ones, though he is glad for the second part of that. If that was just Part Of Friendship he would've been really fucking annoyed.)

"You'd think they'd have a better welcome committee than dunking people in a goddamn lake."