"I know where you can buy face-covering masks," Connor advises. "I mean, I'd lend you one of mine, but the size doesn't fit. Or maybe Harry could take you shopping."

Which is cruel, and then all of a sudden in the middle of feeling light-hearted reality comes back to him. Reality including a thing Angel is bound to notice about Harry, and of course, always, Harry dying. The amusement leaves his face as suddenly as it appeared. But even as that brief excursion from dread has ended, something still has changed from before Angel's arrival. Somehow, he feels better. He does have hope. They'll make it through this, and Harry will be saved, and Tucker Wells back in Maine will wake up and Kara will be happy again as well.

"We'll work it out," Connor says, seriously, and somehow, he really believes they will.