"No, no - not a full-blown apocalypse. Uh. Yet? Hopefully it won't be a whole thing like that. But there's been cracks in the ground that zombies have crawled out of. They're not all that tough, just... a lot of them. So I've made some zombies to fight them. It's... not like their souls are there anymore, and while I'd rather send them back to their families I also can't do that if I'm dead."

He... does not know what 'tsundere' means but he gets the idea. He blinks at the mention of his husband - wait, this guy can just casually say that? Man, a lot changed in ten or so years. "He shouldn't be trying to hit you at all. But I mean... yeah. Friends can be mean sometimes." They shouldn't be, but Casper's standards are... extremely low. He also knows some people who would die rather than admit they have an emotion that isn't anger or disgust, but he's pretty sure that the retribution would be a lot worse than just getting hit.

"Maybe you could - tell me some stories some time? It'd be a good way to pass the time here, and I'm - um. Interested?" Kind of? Can he say that? Is it appropriate to say that? He's not sure.