"That surely would have been more important. This little bauble will break in the next quake." Not that he doesn't appreciate the thought - it's a small, simple but not necessarily meaningless little pleasure for him - but it's not really worth risking anything for.

"It's actually survived a surprising number of incidents." Surely there were other natural and unnatural disasters to have befallen Mathias between the time the original residents left and when Raylan and Doc arrived.

Doc can't resist giving the snowglobe just a little shake before setting it down again.

"Who knows. Maybe we are in a snowglobe. And some asshole keeps shaking it. It would feel like an almighty blizzard, holed up in that small house for ants."