Lisa. Lisa. They only take a moment to take in her appearance before nodding. And it means they can slide past the part where she insists they don't apologize. Said it all wrong again, and they're sorry for that too. But they hate sorry.

Everyone hates sorry.

"I mean, I didn't know if you were..." The sentence trails off limply in the absence of anything else to say, so they simply move on to the next pressing issue: "The Amalgamates aren't bad. Most of them are just hungry."