"I'm very persistent," Lily said simply, smiling in return and although she wouldn't sit here all day and insist to Faye that she could probably do this, she wasn't going to give up that easily either. She knew better than to try and convince her that there was nothing to worry about -- worries were natural, she figured, and she knew she'd have more than a few of her own were she in the same situation.

"This is usually where I'd offer to take you out for a drink, but I guess I'll have to give that a break for a little while," she added with a grin. "We'll have to find another way to distract you for the next year or so, won't we?"