"Yeah, I think so." The mental trauma was more scarring than the physical damage, at least in her case. "Missing a few toes, but it ... uh ... could be worse." She could be in his shoes, however grateful she was to not be.

The second question was one she didn't really want to address, but he deserved to know the truth. "They have, yeah. Spent the last two days interrogating me." How to say their ordeal was an attempt on her life, though? Fallon squeezed his hand subconsciously as her body tensed with the bad news she was to deliver. "It was ..." Merlin, she could hardly get the words out. Fallon used the hand not touching his to rub tiredly at her temples. "I can't go back to work until they find out who did it," she said instead, hoping he'd realize what she wasn't saying.