No matter where you are, I suppose, you have to deal with what happens to you.

-- I could wish there were a few more explanations forthcoming about why these things happen to us, but apparently no one knows. Exciting, isn't it?

[His tone is too pleasant by half: exciting is not the word he'd prefer, if he had to pick one. But this is Ken's party and he's not going to ruin the mood by snarling about things that none of them can help.]