[Velocity very deliberately doesn't look up when Ratchet arrives or when he sits down so she won't have to see his face, but she still winces when he makes a pained noise at sitting down]

[On her own end, her legs and hips and portions of her hands were indeed sore still from the healing she'd received from Quintessa for the damage received from the lava, let alone the poisoning that still made her nerves jangle when we was unexpectedly touched, but visibly at least, those were all healed. She could get about perfectly fine, when she chose to move that was. It was everything else, the memory of being in and causing pain, of almost dying and almost killing, that makes her fuel tank turn over in her chest at the sight of her usual order and his. She turned away, looking at his chin instead of into his eyes]

[She nodded when he brought up the dolphins, eager to sink back into familiar, comforting patterns] Hi! Hi! I did, and it was so interesting, I kept having my datapad reread that part about their mutualistic relationship with the algae and bacteria in their ocean so that they became luminescent! It was just! So wonderful!

[She casts about for something else to say, and lands on] Did you like the e-card I sent you? I wrote it in my room and scanned it in. So um. My real handwriting is there, for once.