He went back to his room and spent a few minutes doing the usual things in the toilet. When he could, he glanced at the screen of his phone. More violence had happened locally. The Sneeuwberg mine had gone to full shutdown. He decided to simply ignore most of his email and message traffic—he’d already marked himself "safe" on all the platforms that mattered, and he’d checked in with Remi. He peered out the window to the trailer where Amelia was lodging and saw her moving around in there.