"Oh, you poor thing. Have they tried to get you to go jogging yet? While smiling and pretending you love it? Because it's only a matter of time." The fact that he lived in Pax gave her a moment's pause, made him less anonymous, but it added something too. "Simon lives in the building, my brother. We just met recently, and I've had this..." she trailed, trying to figure out how to describe Billy. "...this friend for a few years, he lives in the building too and his name's Billy. We had a fight, and I thought he would tell Simon and Simon would never want to talk to me again," she admitted, sitting forward. "Which is a stupid reason to leave your twin brother alone across the country. But he hasn't checked on me either, and I know he's back, so he's pissed," she concluded.
She was just starting to smile at the idea of bursting into flames from stepping foot in the park, and then he started talking about the buried man. "I thought you didn't know him?" she said carefully, without any censure, her interest immediately piqued, instantaneous.