Morningside Cuesta Got Me Thinking Like Crazy

"I was there," Grayday corrected, a bit defensively. "I just meant that it was at the change of the season, and with the winter we had, it's hard to tell where autumn ended and winter began."

Again, he felt silly for arguing over such inconsquential things when Heartha clearly had deeper things on her mind. Day shifted uncomfortably in the face of her sorrow, wishing someone would come along and rescue him from having to respond to it. "That's awful," he murmured, the words feeling weak and ineffectual.