"Ugh," K admitted, and looked down. The sparkle of the water of that little river was a welcome resting point for her eyes as she frowned through her reaction to Fa's words... and then to Fa's alarm.

She was all 'post-life-crisis-y', wasn't she? A trite and thoroughly accurate description of the kind of crisis she'd been facing, and double-damn the fact that here was yet another tie to that crisis-spawning life. It was not without regret that she'd decided not to contact her boy; she had to sort herself out first -- way first. That didn't mean that even with Kay properly integrating, she didn't still wonder after him. Damn it, Evan, now is not the time.

"It's fine," she told Fa, because really, it had to be.