People around here seem to protect their phones fiercely with passwords and fingerprints and a defensiveness he just doesn't understand, so he just slides his unlocked phone across the table to Lucy.

"I keep hearing about all the things they can do now. Games and photos and something called apps. Right now I'm mostly just impressed I'm not stuck to a cord in the wall when I need to call someone."

Not that he has many people to call. Back home there might have been one or two more, but mostly he'd only ever gotten in touch with people for work. And in Darrow there's really just Steve or Beverly.