"You were looking for me, were you not? I should not like to keep a guest waiting," she said, partly teasing, but it was still the truth. And besides that... "There are many others here in similar predicaments, awaking only to learn that they were also in sudden accidents. That I should be able to find an acquaintance among them is something to be grateful for, isn't it?"

So many people in this town were just like them, even if they weren't from the same place. Whatever was happening around them affected all of them, so they all needed to stick together, but there was still something comforting about someone who knew. Maybe she wasn't quite a familiar face, but the fact that they came from a place where they were familiar with similar things—that was enough.