[His tone in turn puts her more at ease, quite happy to put the subject mostly behind them and talk about... mostly more pleasant things than what they were talking about.]

Hopefully nothing new crawls out of the woodwork. But I'm here instead of there, aren't I? Which doesn't exactly... bode well for the future. [She's not wrong, but she quietly hopes that her time here won't be long and she can get back to what she was doing. Being torn from something happy isn't a pleasant experience, after all.]

That's true. I don't think Joseph knows how to keep his mouth shut unless it's busy with something else. [WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN, SUZI.]

I... guess this place is treating you well, so far? I imagine it can't be any worse than dea-[She's immediately cutting that off, oops.]

Nevermind.