[His loss. Maybe he'll ask something again, and something else will come up. She really doesn't care about hearing life stories. Most of the time, it just gives her a way to understand a little better and dig in the verbal knife, at want or need.

But they're also behaving, more or less. She's...tried to. As much as she can.]

I'm not surprised by this. It's Nimby.

[A soft noise, not quite a sarcastic 'hah' before she continues.]

I didn't expect the outpouring of gifts and...affection. Being screamed at during the clean up efforts and being blamed...that made more sense to me.