"I had noticed you seem to make a habit of it," she says, but her smile's not unkind. "But I imagine it at least comes with the territory, in your line of work. I could sit here and get mad about things that are out of my control, but that's no way to live and really no way to carry on being with somebody."

Especially not in a place like this, where it feels like so many things are out of their control.