You'd been in the car for the past hour or so, tense silence stretching between the two of you. Nowadays, you never knew when things would turn bad— when something unexplainable would happen and ruin any semblance of peace. It was almost better to expect it, at this point, than get too comfortable. You sat in the passenger seat, looking idly out of the window.

"...You want to stop at a hotel for the night, or?"