Atton rolled his eyes, which was probably the best answer he could give here that didn't get into thorny subject matter. (He had had to get into thorny subject matter with someone over this already. That was enough for one lifetime.)

"Really good," he said. "I mean, we've been focusing on finishing the songs and not, like, getting in a lot of live time. Been spending some time with Jill. She wants to get even weirder with the drums, and I'm honestly here for it? Trent is... Trent. I think he's back with his girlfriend or something, because he's like, five percent less weird right now. And we've been having the big 'okay so we should probably pick something better than a half-assed cover band name' conversations..."

He shrugged.

"But how's things on your end, before we get up into that stuff?"