"Appearances are deceiving. Sometimes you have to look closer, to see the screams." She doesn't feel she's coping well at all, in fact. "I've gotten very good at keeping them quiet."

After all she's been through, all she's seen, this sort of thing shouldn't surprise her. Might not, if it weren't for the fact that Simon isn't here. The one person who can truly keep her calm. It's mostly that she's warn herself out that she's not panicking currently.

"You seem reasonably connected. If there is such a thing as reason anymore."