"That's a bummer. I wonder what the people in charge of this place have against animals." Maybe they don't have anything in particular against them, and maybe there's just another reason for the lack of fauna that they've yet to discover. Either way, Chrissy doesn't like it.

"I hope so." She doesn't know enough about Steve to guess one way or the other. But if he and Will have been here for that long already, she'd like to believe that Steve would at least tell someone if there was something wrong.

"That's a long time." He's probably already realized that, but the words come tumbling out before she can really stop them. "Is there anything else I should know?"