"Well, I'm just full of luck, aren't I?" I ask without anticipating a response. He can't know what I've already been through, how I'd considered myself lucky for not being alone on the Avalon when it was actually the opposite case.

Fortune hasn't been in my favor for a while, and I don't consider this any different. "Why were you in Korea?" I ask quickly as we near the sidewalk, wanting to focus more on how this happened to him than the fact it's happening to me.