How did I find myself in this situation.
Mark swallowed.
The nervous quality of the swallow was honest and unperformed — the specific, involuntary response of someone who has been reassessing the danger gradient of his immediate surroundings and has arrived at the particular, uncomfortable conclusion that the category of danger he had escaped by running toward these two people might rank lower on the actual danger hierarchy than the category of situation he had run into.
He watched.
Lukas and Ambrose were eating.
