[Even in the moment, Susan's just about sober enough to realise it's weird that her own first reaction to that information is to laugh. But it just seems so ridiculous, that they've all been sitting on that information all this while. It seems like...]

Ka. Where I'm from, I reckon they'd call that ka.

[Her smile doesn't seem to want to leave her face, even though the grim subject ought to knock it right off. And she shouldn't talk about any of this, but...]

They killed me 'bout this time of year. I figured ye knew that's why I didn't wanna stay out there.