_{[... Snerk. It's probably a good thing that Heather's a little too road-worn and weary right now to laugh too hard, because while she certainly hadn't used the potentially-confusing figure of speech deliberately, there's just... something real funny about anybody taking that literally. For some reason. She snickers, in any case.]}

HEH. It'll be a year soon.

Like, 'within a few weeks'-soon.

Time flies when you're in a crazy alternate dimension, I guess.