But if there's nothing that you can do right now -- if all you can do is wait...is that really doing better than the people making friends and having parties?

["What would you prefer I do?"

"...Then I'll stew, simmer and entertain thoughts of a bloody and vicious revenge on the people that've captured us. Is that better?"

"...I actually am doing that, I just don't advertise it. Really, I understand what you're saying. I do. But at the moment, there isn't much I can change about the situation besides try and make others feel as comfortable and at ease as I can."

That's what she had been told when she first arrived and she had also been incredulous of the people seeming to live normal lives here. It had startled her and, eventually, she came to accept the idea that the better way to live when no options of saving themselves were there was to live as well as she could until that time came.

But what if it was wrong? Had that guy been right, that it was more productive to take the time when no opportunity to change the situation appeared and use it to make it more bearable? Or was Jay right, that time spent doing anything else was wasted? Was it more productive to rest in the intervening time, or was it better to remain constantly vigilant?

...She doesn't know.]