[When he arrives, she waves right back and stands up, walking on over with a half smile. She's flanked by two crows, swooping and diving in circles around her like bumblebees.]

Not at all. I've been here just long enough to get these two fed.

[At that, the pair of birds swoops in and lands on her shoulders.]

These are Phobos and Deimos, my two oldest friends. They...ah...arrived shortly after we talked here last.