What Miles couldn't, Charlie could: keep her weapons, walk into the camp without rancor, and be angry at Jeremy without worrying that Bass might take it out on her later. Well, that last one? Bass might be upset later, but she didn't have to worry about Jeremy taking it out on her now.

"Hey." Her voice carried to interrupt the status and the storytelling. "Bass is gonna make it." There wasn't going to be any of that kind of talk where anyone else could hear it and she shifted her glance around before asking, "Why didn't you tell me?" She could understand Miles, but the expression on her face said more than she wanted to aloud. "He'd have wanted me to know."

Which was true enough, she was sure of it. Without him being awake, it was impossible to say, but they had to know that without details she was going to come.