Those are quite serious stakes, then. She's beginning to wonder if anyone here is from a relatively normal and dull line of work or whether they all have their own high stakes situations. "Let's err on the side of hope, then," she suggests, though she knows little of the background. "Here," she says, gesturing to the first in the row of houses. "They all look like this, more or less. I'd say only eight to ten are actually inhabited."