If Steve watches carefully, he may be able to see the terms she comes to with accepting this: it's shocking, yes, to think they lose, but even past that she has worries about how it happens, because she doesn't think her father is the kind of man who'll surrender even if he's overwhelmed.

But even if he had given up, what would that mean for her? Sinthia isn't sure she wants to travel down that road of contemplating her own death, because it makes her feel faintly sick.

"Okay." That's all she really can say; anything more and she feels like a traitor. Not that she isn't starting to have that concern now.