"Eventually," she clarifies, seeing as she'd been in Darrow for a year before Daniel had made his appearance known. She'd almost given up hope, though she had never really moved on romantically, stuck on only a few people and knowing that she had no intentions of moving from there.

"How bad off is the future?" she can't help but ask. "I've gotten small hints about it, but never the full picture. Or is this not the venue to talk about it?"