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YOREL: Someone has to worry about such things, so that the rest of you--

KANNER: Azziner worries enough for all of us.

(Yorel looks out through the telescope. Rocky mountains continue in the distance. Near the horizon, much of the landscape is obscured by a whiteness)

YOREL: She doesn’t, Kanner. I’ve known Azziner my whole life. Longer than you. She doesn’t. Everything is more tenuous than she guesses. Everything we do is in defiance. I will give my life to protect us here.