[ That's . . . a question she hasn't let herself think about too deeply, or really, think about at all. Divine providence? Random chance? Maybe the truth is something in the middle, maybe it's the wind that blew through their world blowing them together again.

. . . maybe she's just here because Ikki-kun is here. ]

Everyone who came in through Heropa, we were all sent here. Evacuated. Ikki-kun and Yayoi-san and I met up in a park; we met Kaneda-san last night. When everything was cleared up he let us stay.

[ She looks back down at the bedsheets, at his covered legs. ]

It's been . . . six months, for you?