you know the first rule of combat?

"If there were clouds gathering for a sudden downpour, I'd be able to feel it," I tell her, truthfully. A shift in humidity, a drop in temperature. Even sun showers have their indicators, though they're less obvious to me now. I like it when it rains. The picture it paints is less clear these days, granted, muddled in the translation from sound to imagined landscape, but the white noise is welcome all the same.

"I wasn't aware sun exposure was a problem during pregnancy, Faye."