Billy slowly nods. It's not like it's the world's easiest decision to him. After all, he has technically withheld food from others back home due to everything they took along with them when they split off from the main group. He wasn't really thinking of the people he left behind.

His desperation to live isn't really different from back then. But maybe he's a little bit more eager to not live alone, now he's got a taste of what it can be like when he lets others in just a little bit.

"I don't imagine one meal will make the difference between life or death for me at this point." His nerves tell him something else.

Billy also knows at this point that his nerves are not always right.

"Besides-- Cornelius is out." And the town is violent. No one has yet broken into the house, but what if they do? What if Rorschach gets any funny ideas?

There's a bit of shyness about him as he admits: "I would.. prefer to not be alone right now, if you do not mind."