"Okay," Eden says. She worries, briefly, that she's overstepped her bounds here, but it doesn't matter, she decides. She really should head home anyway, and the staff will keep an eye on him. Either way, he's going to be alright now, or she hopes he will. If he doesn't want her to stick around, well, he has no particular reason to.

Still, as she gathers up her book and slips it into her purse, she stops to find a pen, jotting down her number on a notepad by the bed. "If you need a friend in town," she says, "give me a call. Bye, Luke."