Your choices are: "yes Strider I would love to make you cookies" and "yes Strider, your wish is my command." But first, whatever they're serving in the cafeteria.

[ She walks beside him for once, rather than following her instinct to leave him behind. She missed him, okay, he actually gets to enjoy her presence rather than her back.

Besides, she needs to ask him some questions. And those are better done when she's not looking over her shoulder. ]

So, spill. You, me, the game, where were you?