Kaylee listens. Not just surface listening. She finds herself looking for something -- she's not even sure what. Reassurance that the writer means Simon well, maybe. The kind of thing you understand, but can't truly comprehend from words on a page.

The fact that he starts the letter with Are you all right? earns the writer points, and lots of them.

Kaylee remembers the name: one of the members of the mysterious mixed party, with the sake and the singing and the statue. She knows the first names of everyone in the picture, and no other details -- except that Liz and Jordie brought the sake.

Listening to Simon read the letter, Kaylee observes to herself that sometimes it's easy to forget just how much there is about Simon that she doesn't know. He hasn't told her, and she hasn't asked. And it's not something to feel good or bad about, either. It is what it is.

Her head shifts a little on the pillow as she listens.