Karen nods, no hesitation, and pushes herself to her feet. "That's what I keep thinking, especially since that weird dinner with everything tailored to what each person likes," she says, and pulls a glass from the cupboard so she can fill it a quarter of the way with water from the sink and knock the pills quickly back.

"And like... Dangerous in more than one way. Dangerous physical skills, yeah, but also just in constant pushing for answers." She sets the glass carefully on the counter and then turns back to Claire. "Did you know that Matt was only here a few months? It was barely a blip for this place. Maybe that's why."

As much as he'd tried the straight and narrow, Matt had been really bad at giving in, too. To the point that it had killed him.