"Hi." Stephanie replied as she met him at the door, giving him a quick kiss because she needed it, like she needed oxygen. It would be soon enough that he'd see Tessa, as she called herself, sitting on the couch, trying to maintain her dignity and posture, though currently there was a rather large cat trying to make her acquaintance.

She was clearly favoring one side, though, and there was a ugly blotch covering a sizable portion of her face. However scared she might have been on the inside, though, she didn't show any of it now.

Stephanie looked at Marcelo. "You have doctors we can contact quietly, yes?"