"I only caught the backsplash." Both figurative and literal. "That was bad enough." And that was all she really wanted to say on that.

"I mentioned the courier service to a friend, but I don't know if he was interested." Her voice turned contemplative, punctuated with more bites and chewing. "We need something -- the nights are too short for delays to be acceptable." That was the useful lesson to have learned from the night before -- the night before had already hammered home this place is unpredictable. What the next lesson would be, she didn't want, but did need to know. She needed to know everything, and she needed it yesterday -- or the day before; they all did. "Do you know anything about the other man on the intercom?"