You were with the first group? [ Sam makes a sympathetic noise as she exhales her cigarette smoke through the open door. That must have really sucked, to show up here and not have even the limited answers that were available to newcomers when Sam arrived. ]

So we're being punished for something we couldn't control. [ That is definitely familiar territory. At least this time, people are being targeted just for being here, not by association with Sam. Her survivor's guilt weighs ever-so-slightly less for it. ]

I don't get it, [ she admits, shaking her head. ] Lots of stuff isn't part of nature's design. Why us?