"Now, why would I do a stupid thing like that, baby?" Jake replied, happy to reassure her, but the smile fell from his face at her next question.
"It's, uh," he said, "It's kinda hard to keep track of a calendar when everything's gone to shit. It ain't all that high up on anyone's list of priorities. The phones don't work any more, there's no electricity to charge them anyway unless we find a generator which ain't always a given, and that bastard in the Spire keeps fucking things up anyway." He was not one to sugarcoat things, not any more.