You make the most of the time that you have. [Two years in and Araceli's hand hasn't done anything that others with marks have done. Natives, rifters, people who've been here or marked for less time than she has and they find themselves able to do things. If that's good or bad she doesn't know.] If he's here and he knows then-- then he knows. You can't change it. You talk when it hurts but there are things you have to swallow, to make you fight harder, to work against everything that's made those people hurt in the first place.

[Would she have said the same a year ago when her own grief was fresh? No. Probably not no. But you use what you have to hand and there's this.]