[She misses the countryside. Or, really, she misses Dina and JJ, but Tess is really the only person here who knows about them and Ellie isn't very much inclined to share that much about her personal life with anyone else.]

Before Jackson it was unimaginable. But I didn't really see a lot of... movies and magazines, and no one really spoke to me about this stuff. [She shrugs, magazine moving with it.] There was more... stuff, there. You could choose what clothes you liked because soldiers weren't just throwing whatever at you, and people shared their movie and music collections. Books and magazines, too. But this shit does still read like fiction.

[Everything was so much more relaxed.]