He said he was all right, but he was looking anywhere but at her. It didn't take too long for Evey to figure out why; he'd already told her that he hadn't fallen alone, that he'd been hurt, and that he'd made a three mile vertical climb after having fallen that distance.
Evey didn't ask him anything else about it. Instead, she rubbed his upper arm on her way to setting her arms more comfortably around his necK, and turned her attention toward sharing her own circumstances before she arrived.
"We had to leave die Festung; too many blank spaces were opening up within the settlement. We hoped to find somewhere more stable." Leaving had been difficult because she'd known she'd probably never see him again. "It was our second day on the road - mid-day, actually - when I was suddenly here. It was the middle of the night. Peter was here, too, and he had some trouble..."
Evey wondered about the darker version of herself, then. Recently, there'd only been silence in the places of Peter's mind where she'd seen that version of herself. She hadn't been bothering her best friend too much; he had so much more going on, and she didn't want to make things worse for him. But it felt strange not telling Aidan about it. She just didn't know if it were still true or not.
"I have a flat here, #1406 at Agreeable Apartments. I was hoping you'd be my next-door neighbor, but it's actually empty just beside me. Peter's across the hall." She was trying to coax him into looking up at her, trying to banish the darkness with talk of the everyday, but nothing seemed to get him to look at her again. "I suppose I should give you a key, mm?" she asked.