The gesture surprising John at first, but he takes her hand all the same.

"It's okay, I guess. I don't really have anything to compare it to, but to be honest, besides the uniform I don't think it's all that bad?"

When compared to spending three years in near-isolation with only your genetic sister and your best friend but also a ghost bird, or... pretty much anything else that happened over the course of Sburb, or the past few years he's spent in near-isolation in his own home... anything beats that. How did he grow up to be such a sad sack, anyway?

"I don't think what's-her-name is all that bad, either. That's just kind of how royalty is, I guess."