A full twenty minutes of work! Horrible. I'll need to rest for the remainder of the day.

[ He presses a hand to his chest as he vamps. But then, with a bit of sincerity shot through with wryness - ]

Sorry we never really had a proper conversation till now. I've been a bit, shall we say, solipsistic ever since I died last summer. Trying to get my head back in the game, at least a little.