It's when she looks up that he can see what'd been hidden by her hand and her hair. Her face is swollen, and she's got the start of a black eye on the side where her cheekbone's cracked, the skin scraped raw where she'd been tossed into a wall like she was a ragdoll. Her wrists are bandaged, but that's hidden under the sleeves of her hoodie, and she shakes her head when he asks her what happened, and she tries to find the words and instead what comes out - what comes out, thick with tears and full of pain, is: "I'm okay. I'm okay." She says it twice, even as she shakes her head.

The last thing that she is in this world? Okay.