The thought hadn't even crossed her mind, Silas being a coward, and she simply nodded her head when he explained that he was a supply truck driver. "What safehouse did you stay at?" she asked him, genuinely interested. It actually sort of embarrassed her, that she hadn't officially, really met him before then. She knew who was who when she'd been in the city. It was strange, finding someone she didn't know.
"I actually kind of miss the days when I could be a badass," she admitted sheepishly. Something she'd never said when Elliot was alive. Something she didn't really feel like she had to, because he never made her feel useless. "I have a more important purpose now, I know, but it's hard sitting on my hands while everyone I know puts themselves at risk for me." She let out a single chuckle and shrugged. "It's okay, though. Maybe someday I'll be able to help out again." Just not any time soon.
Rae's smile grew when he pointed out that she'd been generous in nicknaming Cheese Man. "Well, I could've said Funk of a Thousand Garbage Dumps Man, but it didn't sound quite as good." She joked with a little chuckle. "The Man With the Funk of a Thousand Garbage Disposals? Sounds too official and nice for him. Cheese is stinky, especially the French stuff." She laughed again at the absurdity of the conversation and turned her head to look at him. "Good point. I'll stick to my plan of hiring someone to hogtie him. Maybe I'll bribe them with chocolate chip cookies." That seemed to be enough to get people to do things, usually.
The thought of digging zombies. Rae shuddered involuntarily and nodded vehemently when he expressed a hope that it was just a theory. "I'm hoping it's what you said. That they've always been around, just hiding." Because if they really were evolving... she shook that thought off and thought when he wondered how they were evolving. "Maybe like... they do what people do? I mean, we don't evolve, but we adapt. Instead of adapting ourselves to the situation, we adapt the situation to us. So maybe like... they adapt themselves to the situation since they don't have the brainpower to adapt the situation to them." She shrugged. "I don't know. That probably doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm not a science type."
"Or if you want something nicer, some of the other guard buildings have openings too. I think Evan keeps a tab of what rooms are taken. When the time comes, you can just ask him." She smiled over at him, glad to have made a new acquaintance that night.
She paused and held up her index finger, nodding and conceding to his point. "You're right." She looked down sheepishly and shrugged. "Sucks being so limited sometimes." Her smile was rueful.