How difficult it must be for you, dealing with your pride being wounded so. [ She seems to think this is amusing. Well, of course she does. She can't really be blamed when his reactions are so comical. ]

A couple of months? [ She's already heard that time moves differently here. She isn't too surprised, but it still bothers her that she didn't know he was gone -- perhaps no one did. ] Time can be a strange thing, can't it? It can feel as if it's moving quicker and slower during the same day. Sometimes more literally than not.

I'm the most intimately aware of it when I'm alone. Funny how that works.