Ouroboros Spine walk to the road

She'd been gone for months. Valiant reminded himself of this, and that she'd had plenty of time to fall for someone, and that this Tuft fellow probably wasn't as horrible a villain as his imagination immediately tried to paint him. It was hard, though, when the man was so glaringly absent from this conversation.

"Well, I'm here, now," he said, wishing he had a better balm for her distress. "How long ago was that?"