I looked at the cut above his eye and thought about what close enough meant in Noah's world. It meant someone had gotten within arm's reach of him on his own property after everything that had already happened today.
That sat badly in a way I hadn't expected it to.
"Is it over?" I asked.
"For tonight," he said.
I pressed the last closure strip against the cut and he looked up at me and neither of us said anything else for a moment.
The compound moved outside the walls.
In here it was quiet.
I put the first aid kit back on the counter and turned around.
He was watching me the way he always watched me when he was waiting to see what came next.
"The lockdown," I said.
"What about it?"
"How long?"
He was quiet for a second. "Until I know it's safe."
"That's not an answer."
"It's
