She can understand that need for background noise. Sometimes she'll put on an old movie, but she's more likely to keep music playing in the background. "Read anything good lately?" It feels like a remarkably mild question, given the kind of shit both of them regularly get involved in. But there's something nice about a remarkably mild question.

She smiles a little when he says he likes to take a walk at night. "Nice when it's snowing, too." It sort of brings a hush over the city that never really happens otherwise.