[It's a relief and it isn't.]

Home.

[So there's that, at least.]

It was Christmas morning. I couldn't sleep so I went to play fetch with Ryoji's Absol herd till everybody else woke up.

[He'd had something to tell them. The happy enormity of it kept him up all night, but he hadn't wanted to text or call, had wanted to actually see their faces when he made the announcement.]