Hard edges can be softened, physical wounds can be healed, but in Anders' experience the clincher is having the mental fortitude and the will to survive to snap back after a rough go of it. Clementine's smile contains a trace of that fortitude, a sign that she's down but not completely out.

The fact that she still has that much in her despite looking like the weight of the world is on her shoulders is reassuring, if nothing else.

"If you wouldn't mind. I'll get a look at what I'm dealing with." And while he joins her at her side to help her remove the bandage, he glances at her face and says, "How did it happen? Or is that the price of readmission when you go back to visit your home?"