"I don't want to tell him. He messed up my hearing when he shot me." A pause. "Made me feel helpless." A simple confession that was understandable given the circumstances, but Matt would never admit to anything like that in front of anyone else.

Matt takes her hand and brushes his thumb over her knuckles. He wants to ask her whether she knew how they got out of that hole. How long it had taken her to recover like this. She had barely any scars to show for it. Did it have something to do with those bones? But he doesn't want to bring up what happened, make her go through it again the same way he has flashbacks and nightmares about it.

So he just swallows and focuses on her question, casually dropping a bombshell that he thinks little of.

"I didn't hear much of what he said after he told me you survived Midland Circle."