"Tobias, look around you sometime. Look at the people we know, that we've met here. None of them have had normal childhoods. I mean-- god, you should hear some of the stories Jo's told me! And she's probably the most normal!"

She shakes her head, jaw set irritably and leans back in her chair to cross her arms over her chest. It's a defensive posture, but she is defensive. Rachel has a loose idea of what it means to be a teenager and her own issues with what the war did to her and her relationship with-- everyone.

But this?

"We were fighting almost as soon as we actually became teenagers. What are you basing what we should be on? TV? Because that's not real."