"Sounds like maybe have kind of a reason too," he snorted, taking her piece with his move as expected. "But it can happen. My world went through it. I'm sure yours will find itself to the other side of all this somehow too."

A forever optimist, this one. Some might say he had far to much faith in people, but he would disagree. For all the wrong and ugly in the world, there were always people trying to fix it. And so long as there was that, he would have faith.