Her brows arched. "Atem's here? I must have missed him..." something she'd have to rectify as soon as she could. They'd been friends, after all, and there was no reason at all to eschew that. Friends were valuable. Important. That's why she didn't ditch Kaiba, either. They were friends.

And hell, he needed her, whether he'd admit that or not. Probably not. But she was like a burr, hard to pluck off.

"I--no, I talked to him. Seto, what if you get one? There are more worlds than these, like Jake told Roland in The Dark Tower. What if another Yugi shows? Even if he's not exactly yours? What then? Are you gonna blow your candle out because it's not the hearth fire you planned for?"