"Hasn't yet turned up dead." Small blessings. Doc will take the paltry few blessings Mathias deigns worthy to give him. Table scraps are better than nothing. Although, of course, he hadn't scoured the town this morning, so he can't be sure if there's just one or several bodies he hasn't stumbled across yet.

"Maybe burning the museum down had something to do with freeing us from the dreary cycle of that neverending day," Doc offers, trying hard to put an optimistic spin on events and it probably shows, too. But the Town Hall had been restored and he was there to watch it be reduced to cinders. What happened here was definitely different.