"Yeah, I do," he said. Yona and Beth counted too, at least as a part of the people he thought of as being firmly on the 'us' side of us versus them. "I got food and my boys. What more could you want, eh?"

It was a gross oversimplification, of course, but that didn't undo how truly grateful he was for what he had. Mostly, Edgar tried not to think about it but some things he couldn't help.

"Yeah, I like to think he would. Especially you, you know?"