[Sometimes not having eyes is a good thing: it means you don't have to meet others' eyes if you don't want to.]

< As good as I can be after all of that. >

[It's not the same sort of tension and exhaustion that tend to come with a mission involving a Golden Bough, but there are just enough similarities (and questions stemming from those similarities) to drag at them.

Or maybe their injuries are bothering them more than they thought.]

< Though, I feel like that's something I should be asking you. Aside from appearing here in the first place, this is the first time you've had to deal with something big happening in the simulation, isn't it? >