The change that washes Zahra chills Joey to the bone, he recoils instinctively as if the words were being leveled at him and not the old man. Even after she reverts to normal it takes a few moments for him to recover from the experience. "No wonder.. a 'ting like dat is liable to make a man swear off women entirely!" Except not really.

"I'm still pretty confused on dis Atem/Anzu 'ting. So you guys are like.. one person now right? Yet sometimes you keep talking about them as if they exist separately." Maybe he shouldn't ask this..... " So.... is... are... are the pair of dem essentially...... gone for good?" Joey grew quiet and looked at her seriously. I mean they weren't his friends - not really so why should he be so worried that they could be gone forever? At least in a sense.

"............Dat's horrible." All of it really. The blood and the attempted abduction. "...... " Kaiba. Oh joy. Joey's favorite person in the whole wide world. Sarcasm is real. "Huh- dat kinda sounds like da plot of one of dem movies. Like... those... what do ya call-ems. You know the ones that explore the "what ifs" and the main characters end up trying to fix the timeline so they can survive by the end of it?" There had to be a dime a dozen of those. "Really makes ya think... in a way. That you really need to make sure dat every moment counts...." Joey didn't often get philosophical but there it was.