"Good, I was, uh, hoping you'd be here," Sam said. He thought about adding some sort of qualified, like because he wanted to see a familiar face, or because she was a good friend. Sam decided to just go ahead and not add that qualifier. Maybe it was just... maybe he should just not qualify that for once. No need to, right?

"You okay though? You look like... like this is not a super happy fun time dream for you. Shouldn't you have muscled guys waving palm fronds and feeding you grapes or something?"