No one is ever ready for the ground to shake so powerfully. Even her home, also in Pioneer Square, suffered interior damage when items crashed to the floor during the earthquake. The door to Ned's opens. An employee walks in. She vows to reopen someplace, somewhere, sometime.
Nothing is exact.
The door opens. A man walks in and puts down a business card. It is fixable. But the fixes, she knows, will not be quick. And they may be too expensive.