I'm in the friendship-bracelet-making zone, so it takes a couple of beats for me to blink away my focus and slide my gaze to the offered accoutrement. My stunned stare shifts almost immediately into wide-eyed glee.

"Oh my god," I say, dropping the ends of my work in progress to pick up the finished article Kira's passed over. "This is the best thing I've ever been given in this place that wasn't attached to a war veteran."