"You!" he calls as soon as he sees her, hurrying over.

"Have you met Christopher already?" He looks down at Christopher Mango, who is staring at Vickie with a pair of very, very round eyes. "What have you been up to?"

The cat responds by wriggling until Mulcahy drops him and then meowing very insistently at Vickie.

Mucahy chuckles, then looks back up at her. "Arrayer, if you mean to warn me away from danger, I'm afraid you're a decade too late. How..." A beat of silence. More thickly: "How did you get here? I... how?"