Each of them had endured loss after loss and then attached themselves to someone else, jumping from one support network to the next like stepping stones. Initially, she had been troubled by that; could a love catalysed by loss and desperation truly survive? She had since learned that the hows and whys were irrelevant. They had fallen into each others" orbit, blissfully waltzing around in the ugly chaos of the war. All they wanted and all they needed.