"That responsibility isn't lost on me," Nash answers with a brief blink at his fresh cup of tea. "But Meryod is something different. They're a village suspended over a river by a network of bridges. The real miracle about that is the people there being able to nail anything not related to themselves."

Mia gives Nash a scandalized look.

"Oh come on," he tells her. "You saw what it was like. One guy tried to pick you up with, 'Didn't I see you at the family reunion?'"