Mathias

"No. No, he had died already," Mathias answers and it's as simple as that. His brother is dead and Veronica is gone. No amount of wishful thinking is going to bring either of them back. "I was with some..." He's hesitant to call them friends -- except for Stacy -- but he can't think of what else they were either. They were friends at the time, the kind he'd always met on vacations. Friends for a week before you forget them, but he can't forget these ones.

"Some other tourists," he says finally. "Friends, I suppose."