The last three months have greatly increased Todd's tolerance to weird. "Yeah, she is. Farah is without a doubt the coolest, hottest person I have ever met." He says nothing about them personally; he doesn't do that to Farah or with strangers.

"My sister, who isn't talking to me, has just called, shouting that they're after her, that they're being attacked and she's running. I didn't get anything more than that because, attack. By the time I recovered, she'd long since hung up and pulled the sim and battery from her phone. She's okay now. Probably in the best place in her life that she's ever been." He sounds proud. He is proud; Amanda is about a million times the person he hopes to be and it comes naturally to her.

"Yeah. It's not real, but it's real to me at the time. Amanda nearly died once when she thought she was drowning, she nearly ruptured her diaphragm." And fuck, eighteen seems a lifetime ago. "Yeah, I get that. You know they're bad but you just don't feel it like you know you should."