Adjusting to tuck that arm beneath his head, he merely hummed in response, until she made herself comfortable.

"I dooo wonder," he drawled with a sigh. "Within minutes of one another, they simply began to-- well, disappear. Right down to the organs I'd extracted for preservation."

Despite saying it all so casually, it was a bit obvious that he was in the process of coming to terms with it, and working on moving past the brooding stage.

"All that hard work, indeed~."