That gets another wince of sympathy. Zoe doesn't have asthma, but she does have allergies, and there is nothing elegant about sneezing your way across the Deck. "The pollen tapers off when it gets to be summer, doesn't it?" She's pretty sure it does. "So next month should be better."

How the hell is it already almost May? It doesn't seem that long ago that she was at a firing range obsessively practicing to challenge across to Four.