She wasn't wrong.

"I don't think there's anything we can say," Ezra noted quietly, after a moment. "So I'm just going to say one thing."

And he said, very very quietly. "I'm sorry." He wasn't sure Kathy could hear it, but it wasn't for her, anyway. Zeke's ears would pick it up.

And they did.

Zeke let out an uneven breath, his shoulders drooping some as a little bit of tension went out of them.