"There are a lot of things I'm glad you missed," she replied decisively. Which was true -- there had been too many incidents where Gale would have absolutely been in harm's way, and her without any way to protect him. "Although there's been dangerous things more recently, there were plenty of world changes and other events in the first few years where ten or twenty people died before it was over."

It didn't sound like that many people, but given the small size of Paradisa's population, it had actually been pretty significant.