"Christina?" I may not be Candor, but I know Christina well enough to guess that she's hiding the truth and nothing but the most dire of circumstances would ever prompt her to do something so intrinsically unlike her. "Something happened to Uriah, didn't it?"

I touch her arm, "You don't have to tell me what happened, not today, but you don't have to pretend everything's fine, okay?"

I don't want to burden her with that.