"Assuming we don't get shanked by pirates in the meantime," Ellie said.

She paused. "Maybe even if we get shanked by pirates in the meantime." That was how it worked sometimes, right? She'd known people who this had happened to. It was just the first time it had happened to her, and it had thrown her for a loop. She hadn't been thinking it through. She wasn't going to fucking say that, of course. "But without knowing for sure I'm just going to try and not get shanked."