How on the nose Jean is with that, she thinks. Regardless, they return to the groups cleaning out the corpses. Annie does her best to hold her guilt and apologies inside, biting them down until they're just another part of the cold that sits in her stomach.

She can almost convince herself she doesn't feel anything when she watches the pyre with Marco's body burn. The others seem like they're waiting for Jean to say something - but he doesn't. He picks something off of the ground, and whatever it is, she decides, he can have. If an unidentified bone brings him some kind of comfort, so be it.

When it comes time to declare their units, she is the first to walk away, towards the Military Police. She doesn't turn around to look at anyone else. She trusts that Jean will follow, as they planned.