"I'm sorry. I'm not usually like this." Keziah shakes her head. "Sometimes months goes by where I don't see anyone in my family, but... but it's different now. I always had the option to see them when I wanted to, and now I don't.

"I think it's just dawning on me how much I will miss them. How much I already do." She takes a breath. "But you... you must know that feeling, too. Sent to a war on the other side of the world..."