"I haven't fed 'em in months," She admits, knowing he's been up there far more often than that. But she always remembered them as alive, and so they always were, "Chambers used to feed 'em for me, when I was busy. I wonder what happened to them."

Easier, perhaps, to focus on small things, than the big. She could affect the fish, at least for now. The rest was out of their hands.