Since they'd first met almost four years ago, they'd nearly lost each other more times than she even liked to think about. It sometimes made her feel clingy, especially when they'd been separated from each other for any length of time. Losing him was probably her greatest fear and she'd had that fear come far too close to reality too often and to recently.

"I did hear that you don't lose any time in the real world, and it's not like last time with the Underworld where you were in a coma. Hopefully that means that we'll just easily go back to things when we return." There was a hint of doubt in her tone because when had it ever been easy to reenter society after they'd been stuck in another world, no matter how much time passed.

"Your parents will just be glad that you are home safe, if they notice at all. And we'll just have to work extra hard to make up for it."