"Join me?"

These words confused Nicholas simply because of the fact that the only other human he'd come in contact with had tried to kill him over half a loaf of bread. His whole demeanor transitioned from anxiously alert to depressingly exhausted. There was nothing other than his own life that he had to lose in letting this woman join him in his - [i]their[/i] - fight for survival. His mother would not see the end of the week, and his sister didn't have much longer either. Of that, he was sure.

"Sure," he finally said, "but again, there's nothing here. We have to go somewhere else."