MERRI, MEET GOO.
"Hey," she said, reaching out and taking his hand in hers, "don't be that way. You did everything you could, didn't you? He seems to be doing fine." A bit busted up, but outrageous as always. She wasn't worried about him the way she had been.
"You put me to shame," she said with a grimace at his next comment. "I should be working on my songs." There were one or two yet that she hadn't perfected, and she'd hate to be caught in a fight without them again.