Fun. [ she almost breathes through the word. peggy can understand it, she supposes, because everything that's happened this past week has been remarkably outside routine. but even so. ] Sorry, it's hard to contextualize any part of what's happened as fun.

[ she's exhausted. ]

I'm only glad it didn't have to get used. This time.

[ but there's always a next time, isn't there? some fresh hell to look forward to. ]