*grins back* No such luck. We come bearing dessert.
*steps inside and immediately bumps into Cass, who looks frankly startled to see him (and he'd notice that half the people present do, too, if his attention wasn't currently occupied)*
*to her, pleasantly (and confusedly)* Hey, Cass. Shouldn't you be living the high life in Vinyamar right about now? *doesn't quite know what to make of her slapdash mumbled response that she couldn't find a sitter in time to go, but doesn't have time to be properly puzzled, either (Couldn't Katie have been your plus-one? Does that mean she's here now?) because she promptly takes the case of beer from him and hightails it to the kitchen*
*addressing her retreating back* Oh, that's...too bad?