[She considers for a moment, then shrugs.] I got friends here, and I got work - real work, honest work. And I'm gettin' strong enough and scary enough people ain't so keen to fuck with me.

It ain't so bad. Naught to fret over, anyroad. It was worst when...

[When she thought the baby might still be there, and the weeks that followed after she knew it wasn't. That blank breakdown, that she's still not sure of how long it lasted.]

[But that's not something to put on him right now. She's not even sure he knows she was pregnant, and that would be a hell of a way to break the news.] ...When I first got here. Gettin' used to things.

And the changes, those're hard.