Aleja gives him the slow, pleased smile of a woman who's finally getting all the things she wants, instead of just needs. "We need to be safe," she says. "There are still too many wanted posters here of me, and we should go. Maybe, we go south for a while, and then when things are calm here, we come back."

Maybe he'll have given her back the ring by then, but she's not setting expectations for him, not when they could disappoint her yet.