Maybe a little better. I avoided getting mindfucked, at least.

[not that the last few months haven't been rough, between the fog and everything that happened there, and Natalia getting pulled into Hellburbia, but this isn't about him]

I've got something for you. [boy, this feels stupid. he feels stupid, even if he's trying, here] Tradition, where I'm from, involves cake and whiskey. [a wake cake and a bottle of what passes for Jameson, for him for Emmanuel]