"You don't know what was out there, do you? In the fog?" she asks. Apparently not everyone who went out ended up dead, somehow, so there must have been something that killed everyone. People don't just drop dead from nothing as far as she knows. But then nothing about this town seems anything like she knows. Her experience is limited to her own world, just like everyone else's is.

She shrugs and makes herself take a bite. The pancakes are good, she just doesn't have a taste for food right now.

"I'm alive," she says, which is self-evident. "Sometimes that's all there is. You...seem okay. Relatively."