Millie had just set dinner on the table when Vash bolted for the door.

"Vash?" called Meryl, grabbing her cloak and running after him. "What is it?"

"I thought I heard…" He flung the door open. "Wolfwood!"

The priest stood dusty and exhausted in the front yard, with a dusty and exhausted Thomas beside him. "Yo, Tongari."

"Wolfwood?"

"Mr. Wolfwood!"

"I thought you were dead!"

"So did I. You buried me damn deep!"

"How did you find us?"

"How did you survive?"

"Oh, this is wonderful!"

"Um, Mr. Priest? Why does that Thomas keep poking you?"

Wolfwood groaned. "Don't ask."