Phantom Hollow here i found no self control

Ooh, he'd made a good guess! Well, not really a guess, he'd made a silly comment and it had turned out to be true. He didn't get to answer, even though he did actually know the answer unless she was going to say Vallkyrotticus or something instead. Instead, there was a minor interruption as both of them spotted the moving light colored blot on the corner of their vision. Focus shifted, conversation paused. Ibis?

What a ghost from his past! But the Mal that Ibis was meeting now was nearly a different person -- she'd left about the time he'd started his transformation into the man he was now. The ruffled, angry boy was replaced with the confident, well-preened man who had been grinning away until he'd spotted her. There it faded, but what it was replaced with was something akin to confusion. Was taken aback the right phrase for his confusion at her state and existence? She looked worse than she had during the famine -- when she was around at least. Ibis? What the hell had happened to her? Had they somehow gone and traded places in the world, him happy, her sad or something?