"'S what I heard, yeah." Some people back home don't make it, she'd said. Beth. Hannah. And now Beth's gone, and Emily's followed suit, and at least one of 'em won't be making it out of that whole mess alive, no matter what happens next.

'Specially if you don't remember ever gettin' to know those people on the Hadriel side of things.

"I'm, uh..." Never easy to do a thing like this, even when it ain't the least bit personal. "I'm sorry, Carlisle."