"She did," Hijikata said, sitting and stabbing a bit of fruit with the tines of his fork. He chewed slowly while he thought. He wasn't entirely sure how much time had passed while MOMO healed him; just that the intercom had announced the end of night not long afterwards. How long were the nights here, again? Without a watch, without even being near windows to see the stars, his sense of time was unreliable.

Homura's last few sentences, though, evoked a wince. Though he didn't know how long the healing had taken, he regretted having spent so much time in the girl's room that he'd missed his training rendezvous with Souji and the puppies. Without his presence there... it was possible that everything had gone well, at least.

He cleared his throat and asked, "How was their night?"