Morrie was pleased that Krishna responded to her query seriously, and his answer was, as always, intelligent and well thought out. She sighed a bit. Of course there would be a price to distance herself from chaos, if it were possible.
"Yes, there is a cost for every choice we make in this life," she replied. But she recognized the glint in his eye as he went on to speak, and she knew they were both aware that he was making a pact he would never have to follow through on. There was no real way to avoid chaos or its consequences in this life.
But then his next words were asking for a different sort of pact. A promise. Morrie was never one to commit to anything lightly, because she was a woman of her word. Did what she said she was going to do, so she never agreed to anything unless she had the intention and ability to follow through. So... what was he really saying?
He wanted them to promise each other that they wouldn't create more trouble than they could clean up. And yet, hadn't they already faced the worst sort of trouble together? She had nearly died, and he had cleaned her up, helped her heal, helped her live. What sort of trouble could be harder to clean up than that? And that trouble hadn't even been created by either Morrie or Krishna. Perhaps that was the point he was making.
"What do I say? I say that I think we both already live that way. In fact, I say that we both already live cleaning up more trouble than we create, so yes. I can promise you that," she said and held a hand out to him to shake on it. Then a thought occurred to her. She had been the one to bring Lachlan back. What if he created trouble? Was that her trouble to clean up then, if he did? She almost withdrew her handshake offer, but instead just said, "So long as the only trouble I'm responsible for is my own. I think the other Kelly could benefit from this lesson. He has a history creating trouble and leaving me, well, us to deal with it."
After all, it would certainly be untruthful to suggest that Krishna hadn't helped to deal with Lachlan's trouble last time he'd been in town. Morrie wasn't quite sure she wouldn't have lived through it if not for Krishna.