Phoenix shrugs, glancing down at her feet with a wry and pretty humorless smile.

(Wow, hi, sudden sucker punch of guilt, how are you? Didn't expect to see you again so soon! How's the family? Good, good.)

"Yeah. But, um..." A pause. Sheepish, "I had no idea where that sentence was going when I started it. Um. Look," and she manages to look up, "offer stands, but like I said that's as much as I can do. If, um. Yeah."