"So I'm asking," Will said. "Again. Tell me what's going on with you." What he really wanted to do was to slide his arm around her and give her a casual kind of hug, but he figured she'd be more likely to bite him than to let him give her any kind of feelings.

It was stupid, but he felt he ought to know her better than this. Not just because she was supposed to be his friend but because in that one crazy universe where the world was ending, they were a thing. And here he sat in this one without knowing a damn thing to do.