"Ah, it's okay. It's gotta be some ridiculously big number, anyway," Soldat says with half a smile. "Better for everybody if we don't know for sure."

Their piece of cake might be halfway gone, already. It's pretty good, and they, as always, are starving.

They do pause to consider her last statement, though, and add, "Rather keep track of how long it's been since I got here. Since I got free."