He took the fact that she hadn't flinched at his arrival as progress, although it might have been attributed to the fact that she wasn't feeling well. Either way, Erik was pleased - at least until James showed up.
Must she always be here? Bran told him he didn't know before moving back against the wall, a reluctant gesture to allow James room to approach if she wanted to. "Like before what? Before we came here?" He recalled that someone had made a forum post about feeling sick, and he'd felt pretty bad himself. "Maybe it's just an aftereffect or something." He didn't want to voice the more obvious possibility - that it meant she was about to be thrown back in time all over again.