"The cold," Raju offers, seeming almost surprised. It's obvious, isn't it? Maybe it isn't something everyone knows, or pays much attention to. "The way you can't get warm, and your wounds. It'll build your strength up, get your blood flowing. The cold's coming from inside you, you said, and you've been ill, all that canned food at the Community Center won't be fresh enough to help much."

He thinks on it for a moment. That canned food is what he'd survived off of, before he'd moved in with Francis and learned the things he has. But it's been a while, hasn't it? And surely there was only so much of that in Milton to start with. "Is that what you've been eating? You aren't staying there, are you? I think Francis said something about a cabin."