"Don't get too excited. The trains stop and the doors open without us hanging off of them. I was disappointed too." When I'd arrived on the train, it had been the stop that had confused me most, even frightened me a little.

"Oh, don't worry. She won over Tobias pretty fast. Four, I mean." Four seems like a distant person, not Tobias anymore, but it's the name he's chosen to keep in this city. I try to oblige. "You'll be hand feeding her blades of hay soon enough."

In my mind, it's already settled that Christina is moving in with us. It's a two bedroom apartment, though I've barely used the second room as anything more than an occasional office. "You'll get a phone, some money, an ID card, and a housing assignment."