Just for a moment, he thinks about Chris. He doesn't want to but it comes bubbling up to the surface anyway, and he wonders what Chris would think of all this. He'd like to believe it would be enough that he's happy. He'd like very much to believe that.

But Chris is long gone now. And a lot has changed.

"Never woulda fuckin' believed any of this," he says, leaning back again. "Never woulda even believed we'd still be here. Guess that counts for something, too."