Picture him and Astrid and Peter and Olivia on a nice warm day, all wearing beat-up clothes, smudged with paint, making a house all bright and colourful. It's a nice image to try and get through the day with.

Astrid smiles. "Sounds like fun--when you're healed up."

He's lucky to be alive, but maybe once you survive one gunshot, the odds of living through another skew in your favour.