"I feel so bad for the guy, he's really trying to hold the group together, and he's so insistent that no one misses more than a week... But it's just so dull!" "Well, I agreed to take over like you said. Hopefully I can make it a little more fun." "Yay! Thank you so much, Rick!" she cheered, giving me a quick side hug. That was new. "Uhh. Do you guys do much role-playing? We really only punched some bad guys for an hour there." Ellie shrugged. "Not since Jonah died. I wanted my sorceress to be super bitchy now that her husband is dead, but we don't do any role-playing anymore, so I can't even play around with that." "Husband?" I asked. "Yeah, Jonah's character. When he died, we decided to kill his character too." I frowned. "He played a character, AND he was the DM?" "Well yeah. He

