With a bit of a chuckle, Rae turned around and leaned her lower back against the balcony railing. "Easily done, here," she said, glancing down at the crowd on the bottom floor. "Easily done" when it came to crowd-mingling was relative nowadays. Carnegie was one of the more populated safehouses; four-hundred and fifty was such a high concentration nowadays. Rae had been in this very safehouse since safehouses became the only place to… be safe, and she didn't even know everyone at this safehouse. So many people came and went, and she tried to get to know them all, but it never actually happened. At most, she probably knew a third of them.
"Just don't drown, please. I may be a good swimmer, but I'm not that strong a crowd-swimmer and I'd hate to have to save you again," she teased, her good-natured smile belying any seriousness in her words.
He mentioned the concentration of people here versus the church and she nodded, leaning down to set the two forties on the floor. "I think it has to do with the fact that we have a garden up on the roof," she mused, though it didn't really matter. "One of the only places that won't easily run out of food," she added, glancing at him again.
Getting used to the new surroundings was one she'd heard before. She nodded once, and she turned her head to look over the sea of people below them. "It won't be long. Everyone here's pretty easy to get along with. At least the ones I know…" she added with a low chuckle. "And too tired to be tired is completely understandable. Happens to me more than I'd like to admit nowadays."
Once again, she chuckled when he asked if it was her job to stay up all night. "No, not tired yet. Just wanted to come and check on you guys, but Aaron and Miriam are already basically zonked, so I figure I'll do that tomorrow," she explained. "So, now you're stuck with me."
She turned her head back to him once more, her smile fading to more of a straight face and her eyes growing a little bit concerned. "How are you holding up? That was quite an ordeal for anyone, and you did a pretty awesome job leading the way…" she told him.