No kidding. She's not bullshitting herself either. What a life she must have back home, that it gives her the strength to thrive here. It kicks up the instinct in her to make sure Kamala returns in no worse shape than she left. Maybe she could sense that and that's what made her safe to seek out. But odds are she was just the first grown-up she ran into.

"Not right now. But in winter, after everything stops growing and we're living on two month old potatoes, who knows." She poses it so casually.