[ she nods -- after all, claire had shared this particular misfortune the day they'd crossed paths in the library. bound (by happenstance) for america. ]

It's a strange sort of relief. To know you don't die -- to be told you've got a future ahead of you waiting to be lived.

[ peggy, however, has paid close attention to what other people have said. she's narrowed her own death down to a span of four years. but they are oh so far away. ]