If my baby sister can do it, you can do it.

[ She doesn't say anything about things being okay. They won't be. Maybe they'll be some new flavor of terrible, but they'll still be terrible, and right now Kate's like one of those bunnies she loves so much: sweet and cute and utterly helpless to defend herself.

Well, it doesn't have to stay that way.

But Kate's last point deserves a scoff and a roll of the eyes, and that's what it gets. ]

That guy's gotten mad at me exactly one time since I met him, despite all the shit I've pulled. I think you'll be fine.