Honestly? Yeah, this place is an improvement in a few ways. Things weren't great where I come from, we had a world ending level cataclysm and everything was still a mess.

[Nadine has no problem talking about that part of her world and former life. Captain Trips and the end of civilization as they know it was safe territory. And usually explained away anything anyone found odd or reclusive about her. It was just normal end times trauma, nothing more.

She doesn't find the question rude, either. If her current bar buddy is perceptive, it's not surprising he picked up on the fact she isn't that bothered by her situation.]

The life and world I knew already ended a year ago, so this...isn't as big a change as you'd think, at least for me. It's getting back to normal, in a lot of ways. I have a car, I pay rent, I have an actual paying job...those things were starting to become part of the past.