The pear drops a few inches and Alice's eyes narrow suspiciously at him. "Funny, that, 'cuz I just got back a few days ago. Though apparently me and Sam were gone about a month."

Longer than that on her end, of course, more like three. The three most chaotic months of her goddamned life, almost more so than things got here.

"And you," the pear is up again, "were still there readin' off bloody cases!"