The bite is fair and welcome for it. He shouldn't have said it the way he had but there was no going back to fix it so it would add itself to his list of social sins, to be dealt with another day.

"No," he replied in a quiet frustration. "Though I don't think John woulda said anything. Or Claire." He hadn't gotten a chance to talk to John about his death, not really, and while he'd found and buried Claire.. Well, it was foolish of him to have cared beyond doing his social duty.

"She's not missin' yet. If we're lucky enough to get the hell outta here, come back like they did.." He didn't want to think about the what ifs of them being the first ones into this weird in between. "You should ask her."