"Well, here is certainly better than where I was after."

She hadn't really thought of it quite that way, as a change in herself, rather than her surroundings, so it took Annie a moment to answer the real question. "I suppose I... yeah. I felt like I was finished. Just...over. George was going to be normal, Mitchell was going to get himself killed, and I'd be haunting that place until they knocked it down in twenty years and put up Council flats. And then I'd be haunting Council flats."