We both lost her a long time ago- and you are going to get her back while I'm not. [Back home he meant, of course. Of course he knew, had connections to know they were traveling together after the encounter in Egypt- but also an admittance that here was the only place he'd have that friendship back.

Everything done here was fragile, easily broken by a simple disappearance, a return home.]

You'll have her back.

[No arguing at all, for all he cared they were cold hard facts of things. Wasn't wrong in the thought he usually grieved alone, already had been for so many other things and this- this was the last straw in a few months.

Tired of being alone.]

I've already cleared out her home, of what couldn't be left there. [Perishables, the animals. He'd done all the important things that day. Some days before.]

I forget, did I ever give you a taste of that liquor here that cuts through all of the SEP bullshit?

[He planned to drink tonight.]