"Blaze is invited, as well. I think it's about time he learned how to hold a controller. He can always bow out at bedtime." Claudia kept it light at first, but she knew Dom might need this. She didn't touch him, nor was her tone compassionate or sympathic, but matter-of-fact. "I understand what you're really saying. I've been where you are now, more than once, and I'm not referring to Eric. I didn't want people trying to make things better, because there is no 'better', there's only adjusting and trying to move on. The one thing that was the truth was that doing something, anything, that you enjoyed previously got your mind away from the bleakness if only for a short while."