'A quarter of it, maybe. Depending on whose year,' she answers. 'That's the very best news! Just knowing he's safe. That he can have some chance of living the sort of life he wants.' Even if she'll never see him again, it's a comfort.
'Lots of us escaped to this place from the ship,' she tells Cassandra then. She doesn't know all the names, doesn't know if she has encountered them all, but she'll try. 'Fever,' she says first, their other comrade. 'Ava and Peter,' because Ava hadn't had a safe home to return to. 'Edgar. Dimitri. Wilson Higgsbury. Mulcahy who made it out from the Village, and - did you meet that tall glowing skeletal type there, the Fuelweaver? He made it too.' She doesn't wait for an answer, just carries on with her list. 'Jeff, um... and that woman with the sharp teeth, Daisy.' Tayrey sounds less enthusiastic about her, but she's not to know which people matter to Cassandra, and Tayrey might be wary of Daisy but she's not close to being one of the people she'd rather wish death on. She's glad they're all free.
That Fever is the only other member of their group who made it here must be very apparent, but at least Tayrey has hope that they might have ended up somewhere else. Somewhere safe.
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'Lots of us escaped to this place from the ship,' she tells Cassandra then. She doesn't know all the names, doesn't know if she has encountered them all, but she'll try. 'Fever,' she says first, their other comrade. 'Ava and Peter,' because Ava hadn't had a safe home to return to. 'Edgar. Dimitri. Wilson Higgsbury. Mulcahy who made it out from the Village, and - did you meet that tall glowing skeletal type there, the Fuelweaver? He made it too.' She doesn't wait for an answer, just carries on with her list. 'Jeff, um... and that woman with the sharp teeth, Daisy.' Tayrey sounds less enthusiastic about her, but she's not to know which people matter to Cassandra, and Tayrey might be wary of Daisy but she's not close to being one of the people she'd rather wish death on. She's glad they're all free.
That Fever is the only other member of their group who made it here must be very apparent, but at least Tayrey has hope that they might have ended up somewhere else. Somewhere safe.