Ruth unwraps her sandwich and takes a sip of her coffee. Thatcher was unusually absent from the lunch break that they usually spend together due to something coming up today. They'd usually spend their time together chatting, which often consisted of Ruth talking and Thatcher occasionally offering his own input. He'd likely be back a little later. She sometimes worried that the man would work himself into an early grave, despite him being younger than herself. Things had gotten this way after the invasion began; before it, he hadn't been as stressed or as much of a workaholic.