(Give Eddie a minute. He's not used to adults swearing freely around him like that but more than that, he's not used to girls swearing around anyone period.

He is also in shock that this woman had to be home for dinner over a year ago. A year.)

Thank God. (Is all he manages after a beat, his voice small and filled with raw childhood relief. Everyone knew that the true horrors of being a kid was the horror of getting in trouble.)

No, she wouldn't kill me, but I'd probably spend the rest of my known life in a hospital getting x-rayed for space diseases. Which...I'm sure exist.

(WARY LOOK.)

Have you really been here for a year?