[Virginia had been staying off the network, even as the device that she'd been told was hers filled with more and more messages. Talking to strangers was going to be hard not to do, since everyone was a stranger, but here was a stranger that seemed to need help. Helping someone who needed it was more important than not talking to strangers, she figured. And the woman didn't look like a weirdo.

She twiddled the device (The really cool device, that apparently looked like what telephones were going to look like in the future) to make a video call and a determined redhaired girl filled the screen on Kaylee's end.]

Are you pregnant? Because you sound like you're trying not to puke. You should take B vitamins, too, not just the ginger and crackers.