"I'm sorry for your loss..." She frowns a bit and watches the liquor swirl in her cup before she speaks again.

"I don't think this is really the afterlife...if it was my father would be here...he died years ago..." She didn't want to say more than that, at least not right now. The mood had just been okay but now it was surely falling with the topic.

"Perhaps your friends will come soon one day. Or you can make new ones here?"