( it doesn't take long to heather to see how maria had been struggling with the tomato and while it was true that adults were lame and uncool, someone here gave her a great piece of advice sometime before maria came in-

'make friends, look out for each other, and try to get a gun'

she was still working on that last part, but those words resonated with her. while she had made some efforts to be connect with a few other people here, they hadn't quite made a 'truce' about protection. she wasn't trying to use maria per say-

in fact she was trying to protect her despite the difference in physical age. )

There's lots of old people here, in fact, one of my friends here could pass for my grandfather.

( she chuckled a bit before moving closer to the other, after managing to pry apart the items she had been struggling with before. )

I think whoever is judging us will be happy we managed to make anything at all. Let's add in this stuff before it sticks together again?