In a few minutes they're settled into a booth with menus and coffee, and Toni has picked up her phone to flip through the photos she's taken in the three weeks Natasha has been gone.

"So, take any noteworthy damage while you were away?"

She lifts her left hand to show how her baby finger no longer QUITE lines up evenly with the ring and middle.

"I caught a missile funny and broke two fingers the week you left the country, only got out of the splints a few days ago. Typing has never been more infuriating."