[ Oh......so he wasn't just going to pretend it didn't happen. Okay. That's fair.

She knows a fair bit more about his life now than he'd like, she can only imagine, so she can spare this one, small, possibly-insigificant chapter of hers. It's just... a matter of words, and maybe putting in a way that van Zieks didn't think it was ridiculous.

Only... it kind of was? A little bit.

Oh dear. Maybe if she waits long enough that waitress will be back to interrupt them with her drink.....

.......

............

... anyways-- ]

Well, I... yes, and no, I suppose.

I don't understand why, but... that was me, I'm afraid. From the one time I became a lawyer and dressed the part.

[ She chuckles a little. Because if she laughs first, then everything's okay. Right? ]