It was worse for Ruby. She was all but left alone when all that went down.

[There was ... Oz .... but they were not even nearly on proper speaking terms at that point.

Which is a way of deflecting the compassion directed in his direction in the midst of this particular conversation, but listen. It's fine. He's fine.

When Willow makes her offer, though, he hesitates, briefly. He's not entirely convinced he's prepared to make the leap from forgiveness to trying to build something closer, but he supposes there's no harm in just casually hanging out. Knowing Trench, it's only a matter of time before they get thrown into some kind of traumatic situation or another together.]

...Sure, why not. I know some pretty kickass cafes around here.