[It was all just a bit sudden, this "you woke up dead! your bff has a new bff and a wife and a child!" business. As it sinks in, it's not nearly so hard to sound pleasant.] You need not be sorry. I am glad to hear that you and Horatio have had good fortune. [Aside from that whole still-a-lieutenant thing, of course, Bush, but it'd be rude to point that out to you.]

[He follows Bush's gaze down to the place where his wound once was, then shakes his head.] Entirely healed, actually. I should not have come to meet you if it was not.