Yeah, that sounds about right. No counting on comfort.

[Nadine pauses a moment before continuing. There's no harm in vague details, and she's getting the same impression. They're taking the same approach to one another, cautious but civil. Feeling one another out in the same way.]

The world pretty much ended, back where I came from. It was way more of a mess than this place is.

[Strange to think that this weird place is actually an improvement. Sure, Boulder had been fine, but she'd never quite fit in there. Even when she'd tried. The veneer of forced normalcy, like everything was the way it had been, never sat well with her.

This place understands what it is.]

I'm Nadine.

[They're neighbors, he can at least know her first name.]