That things stop is small comfort: she still misses them. She even misses the sand in everything, and the fact that there is nothing to eat on the island, and whatever makes noises at night. She misses the crass way Jin has started telling her what she can and cannot do because it is familiar, and she misses the other women: Claire with her tiny build and giant belly, and Kate who has no fear, and Shannon with her attention to grooming, and Rose who does not believe her husband died.

But something Tifa says attracts her attention more than anything and for the moment, her tea is forgotten. "You have a friend here? That is possible?" No one else she spoke to mentioned that. "How?"