Think he figures I'm his best bet at learning how to live with all this rubbish.

[ Or better to make friends with the bloke who can maybe send him packing. Who knows? He came with gifts, so he was trying to appease or mollify him in some way. ]

I don't know her. Only saw her once, skulking around before things went really bad. [ His voice is trembling and he was going to try and get up, see if he could visit the lad, but he's already shivering just from being out of the blankets. Bloody hell. ] No one's come around yours? Bothered you?