July 9, 2023:

Winter is coming.

It's the second long-term attempt to connect through video. A decade earlier with Time Bandits and Ballroom Dancing; nowadays Game of Thrones, Big Love and The Americans.

She'll leave the spidery fortress she's constructed in the former master bedroom only for dinner and TV. There's talk, there's food, there's a certain minimal pleasantness.

But that's all. Although this repeats for more than a year it nevertheless fails to evolve into anything beyond unhappy neutrality.