Past tense. Ran. She wonders if that's important or just a slip. It's hard to tell. Her thumb pauses in the little track it made, from just below the goggles to the edge of his jaw. Trembling could be good or bad and he might not tell her either way.

"Yes, yes. Very responsible. Being alone on the run makes you forget that people can give you much information or that food comes in more varieties than charred and dried. I'm lucky people found me or I'm sure I'd still be out on the skyway, watching from the outside, trying to eat their tuskbeasts."