Orion smiled back at him, exposing a few teeth. "Texas wasn't so much a waste land as it was something God forgot to finish half of," she told Doc with a one-shouldered shrug. "The country was prettier than the cities, but I guess that's universal."
Outside, Amy went running past the open door of the clinic, giggling madly about something. The hunter could remember being that young, and in a way she envied the girl her innocence. She hoped the kid could adjust better than some adults had to the fact that things were different now.
"I'm not keeping you from anything, am I?" she asked, probably way too late for the sake of politeness. Her mother would have been appalled. "Were you doing something when I got here?"