So,

[ very casual, for that one beat. ]

I'm not sure how things are done around here per rifter vanishments. Ceremonially speaking. Thus far it's sort of been a bit of hearsay, a few raised glasses. Somewhere between a resignation and a sudden death, on the spectrum of our understanding. I imagine it depends on your sense of cosmology.

[ That's enough stalling. ]

Richard Dickerson is gone, I think. The Head Healer. So we'll be short a few miracles going forwards.

Anyway,

[ does sound like the start of more talking, but it ends there. ]