Well, Ai-Ling's not lost anything, yet. Miki is merely misplaced. She'd know if he wasn't, and her faith in that keeps her going.

Usually.

"It depends," is the answer. "Like, last month I hunted down a sabre-toothed animal that had been killing children in a town. The men had those gun things, but they'd run out of, um... bullets? That was hunting."

She's not fully sure why Jordan's making the distinctio, but she'll go with it.