CT winces sympathetically. "Damn. I mean, that makes sense. I find it hard to imagine, Resol was— well, the opposite, really, but it's not like I know nothing about what something like that does to a population."

War, disease. They leave their mark. Shape a society.

"But, hey," Connie says, deliberately a little lighter. "Never too late to start. This probably won't be the last event around here with dancing, sooo..."