Nah, you’re right. We shouldn’t be. Problem is, it’s hard to know what to prepare for. I mean, we can definitely stockpile stuff; the people who have been saved all of us in that last event. [They were the reason why the group had food, something Neal’s very aware of.] But a lot of the events mess with our heads too. One time this place turned into the town where a bunch of people my world are from. No zombies or anything, but it was cursed; almost everyone believed they were different people with different lives. There wasn’t any way to fight it either. We just had to wait it out.

[Which, granted, can’t be any more comforting than anything else Neal’s offered up. He hates the fact he can’t offer the kid any more hope, but she seems pretty smart. She might even be able to tell if he was trying to cushion the truth.]

In some ways it is. I mean, if you’re worried about something that happened back home, you know that when you go back you won’t have lost the chance to fix it. That’s definitely a good thing.