He's said it a couple different ways now, but Rosita has heard him filtered through her own doubts, through what it means to her to see her friend wearing this, behaving this way, what she would think in any setting let alone this one.

But she makes a concerted effort to set that aside, does her best to study his face in the darkness.

"You feel safe?" she asks again. "You trust him? That this isn't going further for him than it is for you? Because you're wearing it now, and he's not here. It's just you and me."