[HEY GUESS WHO WAS A BIG SULKY SULKPANTS FOR A LITTLE and is now aggressively reminding himself that he has already learned this lesson once and needs to like. Actually reach out to the people he loves for support and companionship? This guy! So here he is, because boy howdy there's nothing to combat the worry that everybody he cares about is going to disappear like talking to them and reconfirming they're still around.

Not that he can say any of that out loud or anything. Haha.]

Mabel! It occurred to me that it's been a while since we spoke last. Have you been well? Gotten into any interesting trouble?

[She wouldn't be a Pines if she hadn't done something at least a little illegal since they last talked.]