Hopefully Ai-Ling will get used to the quietness. The frowning is abnormal, though. Jordan just shakes her head a little, still looking out the window. She knows the highway they're on, she's been on it countless times in the past few years.

But it's never been broken like this, ragged and tore-up, and the area surrounding it has never looked this... ravaged.

"Everything's different," she says after a moment, soft.