Redsand Canyon did he go on down the mountainside, and leave you all alone?

Whatever Riley saw in the reflective pool of Colin's knitted face, he did not verbalize it. The lull of silence that stretched between them was familiar, until a bald reply was given in answer.

Yes.

Riley could not say he sympathized. Instead, clueless to the yokel of sorrow that hung around Colin like a torc, Riley simply asked: "Why?" Did he not have company, in the sense of a pack and the Saints?

Was that not enough?