"It's in a good way, though! Stuff for me's mostly... it's settled, I think, and this stuff-- it's way better than the sort of... ups and downs we had a year ago." That's the most that she's going to get into it, the other things that happened, but it seemed like that chapter'd mostly closed for everyone. People just seemed a lot safer, these days.

"All these people care about you. I mean, all of them you know, anyway. I think there's a couple of people just hanging out." She leans back to look at the crowd, then back at Joel. "Do you guys need anything? I mean, not today with the party, but... I was thinking, if you guys are going to be orgainizing stuff, or if you'd be building something, I could help? I you need it, I mean, I'm not just going to shove myself into your construction plans or whatever." She's still struggling a little how to balance not living with them, but still thinking of them as family; it's hard that she's been so involved with work, and the whole fairy tale... thing, but she really wants to make an effort.