[ SOMETIMES YOU DON'T LIKE TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO YOU SO YOU TRY TO SPEED THROUGH WITH AS FEW DETAILS AS POSSIBLE ]

...We were, yeah. For a long time. She was trying to wear us down so we'd be willing to make a bargain with her, I think.

[FAIR HONESTLY HE'D DO THE SAME. Also this sounds exhausting. And confusing. His brow furrows.]

And yet, you were only gone for a short time here... Just yesterday we had that horrible soup.

[TIME BULLSHIT IS SO TIRING.]

You were able to defeat her?

[ YEAH IT'S DISORIENTING AS HELL ]

God, that soup. Yeah, that was like, two months ago? Something like that.

[ rubs his forehead... ]

We did. Destroyed the item that she was getting her power from and everything.

[ "and everything" meaning "and stabbed her" but he doesn't know if he should say that. ]

[Just keeping the stabs a secret... He nods, though, understanding. Life's exhausting! Especially when you're just launched into the necromancy void for two months apparently!]

...I'm sorry that you had to go through such a thing. As if being here isn't enough of a punishment.

[He's so mad at the concept of CYOAs.]