I need to measure the danger, otherwise it’s hard to calculate the rescue distance. The same way I surveyed the house and its surroundings when we arrived, now I need to see the green house, understand its gravity.
When did you start to measure this rescue distance?
It’s something I inherited from my mother. 'I want you close,' she’d say to me. 'Let’s stay within rescue distance.'
Your mother isn’t important. Go on.
Now I walk away from the house. It’ll be fine, I think. I’m sure the walk will take only around ten minutes. Nina sleeps soundly, and she knows how to wake up alone and wait for me calmly; that’s how we do it at home, when I go down to buy something in the morning ... 'Sooner or later something bad is going to happen,' my mother would say. 'And when it happens I want to have you close.'
Your mother is not important.