He means it all to be kind, even sympathetic, but it hits vaguely at some of the things that had been on her mind ever since the end of June; since seeing David again, and mulling over how far she'd strayed in the last year from who she always expected to be. Most days, it felt like growth--but not all of them.

"How did you figure out everything, after Al..." She laughs once, soft and mirthless, taking a sip of her tea. "Left feels too polite, and vanished makes it sound like a stupid magic trick. Disappeared. How did you and Kavinsky work out how to...be, once one of the people in your relationship wasn't there any longer?"