In the short time between paging her and when she appeared in the doorway, Merry almost forgotten why he'd called her in the first place. That's the state his brain was in: swampy.
"Yes!" he replied, after a momentary blank stare. "I'm looking for an article I know the OC Observer did on us in 2009, but it's no longer on their site. Do we file things like that?"
There would be a followup question, but that one was still only brewing in the back of his mind.