Old Lace got up and padded over to Victor, moving to butt her head against his hand. More petting, please.

Gert, for her part, took a moment before deciding not to press for further details. It was getting to become a habit, and anyway, if Victor was actually back at Fandom relatively unharmed and wasn't volunteering any information, she figured it couldn't be so bad. "Yeah, I know the feeling," she said instead. "Even with Kar here and Nico's visit, I still miss everyone. It'd be hard to pass up a visit home, even for something half-baked that's bound to end as badly as all our missions seem to end."

Oh, she hadn't seen anything yet.

"How is everyone?" There, that was a vague enough question.