So many people saw what happened. Joshua just assumes that everyone did, at this point. He takes a breath inward, exhaling through his nose.

"I'm doing all right."

Now, at any rate. Now that Clive is back. The days between feel like a fever dream, if he's to be honest, but he isn't going to say that. He barely knows Odile, and he doesn't want to burden her.

"It's humbling, being beaten as we were... but we will learn from it, and we will not make the same mistakes again."