Honestly, even if she did say it was going to be okay, he's not really sure if he could believe her. Not under the current circumstances.

"There are far too many similarities to what happened back home," he says. That's what would make it difficult to believe. Especially since some of the officers sure at first tried to act like nothing was happening, as if the rest of them would somehow be blind to it.

Ever since then words like those have always felt false.

"The only difference is that I am not sick." Yet. Who knows what the food situation may do to Billy if it remains this way, especially since he apparently gets sick so easily under those circumstances. "I-- I can't get sick again."

Not with how that ended before.