He hummed a note with a nod. Fucked up is a good way to put it.

"Yeah. We came back. Some of us. Not enough of us," he answered with a soft evenness and fighting the urge to reach up and scratch the faint lines across the left side of his face. "So don't go roamin' around after nightfall and don't forget the buddy system. It might save your ass. There's no.. no normal livin' here, but there's some kind of livin' regardless. It's somethin', in between everything else."

He'd found more than he could have ever hoped for, considering the situation but it was nothing like he'd ever experienced.