When he started by saying he had 'given up on killing people,' she tensed. She was, after all, in a house with him that was pretty isolated and she had no real way of getting help. Come to think of it, this might not have been her smarted plan. But he did look like he was joking and he added the part about the army, so, she relaxed.

"Was it like this for you and your family growing up, too? With bunches of people just trying to kill you?" She knew the Hales had had a lot of problems like this growing up, so from her perspective, it was like this for everyone.