It's enough to make him smile.

"Probably not. And it's nothing all that mysterious, just ... I was short with her, the last time we talked. And then I wasn't answering anyone's waves for months, and she tends to take that kind of thing personally."

His fingers trace the edge of the paper, absently.

"And, of course, she didn't know what was going on. None of them did. That was the whole point."