[As he fakes this laugh Julien has an odd pang, wondering if this would have been a very long laugh, if it would've been the kind that made it hard to breathe, to the old him. He doesn't know. He pushes that down and shakes his head at the robot, grinning.]

Not very imaginative, I know, but I don't think she minds. And... yeah. Things are going a lot better now. Of course, there's fewer sick, too. [The survivors all still have it. For all he knows the symptoms will come back. It's not something he'd be able to prevent, though, and he hates dwelling on that kind of thing.]

[Julien shifts his feet on the ground and from there kind of half bounces upright, spinning to smile brightly at Banagher.]

Play with me, then! Just a couple hoops.