As expected, there were signs of her sadness written on her face, but her knew better than to say anything about it. "No problem," Will answered as he plunked down in a chair, resting his hands on its arms and leaning back.

He nodded at her answer, tilting his head to the side. Of course she wasn't fine, but he'd play along and keep the conversation light as a start. The attempted joke actually caused the corners of his mouth to twitch upward in a smile, thinking of how they had bickered about the conference almost nonstop just a few days ago.

"Everything went fine today. Looks like all the stuff I planned to catch up on after the conference got done ahead of schedule. So I'm not complaining."