[Special forces, huh. Kind of like the SMS, Sheryl reasons? Close enough for her.

There's sympathy on her face as she sits back and listens. For all this woman knows, this man had died-- maybe he had. And now he's here.]

What makes it so complicated? If I saw the man I loved after not knowing if he were okay, or even alive, I'd think I'd be overjoyed.

So there's something else in the way, then? [Phrased as a question, but it isn't. Not really.]