"I don't really want to go and look at other people's lowest moments." And it's the only chance he has to see Farah and Dirk. It might be a memory, and an awful one, but seeing Farah relaxed and Dirk so alight with happiness... it makes him miss them a tiny bit less.

"Neither. They weren't even interested in her, they wanted the guys she was travelling with. The, uh, energy vampires."

Pararibulitis kills. Amanda had broken her arm once during an attack; Todd had never found out the specifics about it. Hadn't wanted to know. "Oh. That's pretty rough." He didn't say sorry, because he was trying to be more honest and he wasn't really sorry. He didn't her or him to be sorry. "You seem okay now, though."