Eighteen months together and she'd certainly hope so. She takes a second longer to figure out her horse's pace, to match it to his, but she manages.

"That's true." She will be there eventually, when she's done graduating someone in turn. "I'm happy for you. You earned it. When I get my own deal, it won't have happened without you."

And who knows how many hundreds of thousands of lives that could save, in the long run? Maybe even what's left of humanity.