[Christine breathes out with him, gives his hand a little squeeze. She's relieved to see him coming back to himself. Even if she hasn't completely yet, maybe they could all fight this illness away eventually.

She has to hope for that. Because the other solutions are too awful to consider.]

...I'm sorry about how I acted at the party. You shouldn't have seen that. I just, you and Stephen were fighting, and it made me nervous, because you aren't a bad person-

[Mephisto isn't. He's just done some bad things. Things that might have set off Christine's sort of downward spiral in this place, but it's fine.]