Yeah, that works.

Hard to untie her tongue after that movie moment and when Sam starts talking, it's easier to just listen, to remember how to breathe. He's here. He's... not strictly alive, given the conditions of being here, but he survived the trip through that goddamn portal and that's all she needs to hear. He's not a lost cause. She was right.

Relief washes over her like a drug and she laughs, a little manic but so, so relieved. "Y-Yeah. Damn right."

Breathe. Just... breathe.

"We've been trying to figure out how to get you back for... well, weeks. I-I feel like we were on the right track, but— I dunno, there's a lot that's happened, and Celia had to stop me from tying a rope around myself and just going in after you more than once. Which is insane, I know it's insane, but—"

She doesn't have an end to that sentence.