[oh good god she was mostly joking; that is like the opposite of comforting?? Clover just looks increasingly uncomfortable as this pause continues???? someone please save Clover, "probably" is not especially reassuring, the discomfort hasn't gone away, and she's just anxiously tugging at a curl of her hair with her free hand the entire time.]

Um. [in summation: five percent chance of attempted stabbings, the potential promise of the buddy system serving its purpose, the chillest a person could possibly be about having obsessive stalkers that somehow get worse than Rhys, and she probably lost the bet] Thanks?

[She'll believe it when she emerges on Friday un-stabbed.]

I'mmmm proooobably staying kinda armed anyway. Just in case. What if we just, like, didn't deal with or look at or interact with him at all all week. [that's not how stalkers work]