Fred's expression twists into a tiny frown and she flexes her fingers around her coffee cup.

"This whole place is kind of a cruel joke, I think," she says, "All us brought here and set up with what look like normal lives, and then things like this happen."

Fred accepted a long time ago that her life was never going to be normal again, though. She's lucky to even have the rest of her life, lucky to not be dead in another dimension somewhere, but she knows that this is what she gets now.