"And they will, most likely, happen again. They don't like letting us get too comfortable without something comin' along to get us worked up." Or scramble to find drinking water: she has nightmares about if the Captors decide to mess with the food.

"There other big stress-inducin' thing is that we have a few more arrivals overall than disappearances. Population increases, sometimes in dribs and drabs and other times with a flood. Come the spring, we'll be able to grow crops again, but you get my point."

She's been keeping up, but mostly only due to the supplies they were given over the strange gift box day. The day Karen was killed.

"Stores, uh, some have been put in the storage building. Crops, from the harvest. Otherwise it's mostly here, or been divided up among the inhabitants."