River has spent the last two weeks more or less staring at her bedroom wall as an immortal being's lifetime flashed before her. She remembers everything, even things the goddess called Serenity had forgotten in her delirium. The things she'd done, the people she'd hurt. The chaotic nature of her magic and her total loss of control. The weight of seeing past, present, and future all at once; the loneliness of her self-imposed isolation to avoid the pain of feeling the countless lives that would rise and fall across the ages.

She remembers it all, and she is terrified of that future. There is no going back to "business as usual" for her. Not if it's what sends her down that path.

No. She has to start over. Wilhelm was one of her very first friends in Abraxas. She doesn't want to let that rift form between them again. Maybe this is a chance to start over.

"It's a surprise." A peace offering of sorts - the same one he had given her in a time that never was. She smiles lightly, eager to show him, then eyes the bike he has yet to put away. "Should we get this one home first? We don't want Kyle to worry."