Kadar nodded. He was careful to go slow; he remembered well enough the confusion at waking up here and the headache she was certain to have -- even without the fall she'd taken, hitting the ground harder than he had.

"A few weeks," he said. Closer to a month, these days, but that sounded worse. More intimidating to say that she might be away from her family for so long. "More people are constantly arriving, so it may be that your family will be here soon." He hoped, anyway. For her sake. He can't imagine being here without Malik.