"This isn't me just trying to still be a 'working woman' Sook." Izzy shook her head. "I have to contribute while I still can so I have others who will look after the little ones when I can't. And I still have to keep an eye on all of them." The other women of the dorms weren't cruel, but everyone had to look out for their interests and those of their families first. Which meant that Izzy had to contribute while she could to have credit with the others for later. "A few weeks from now I probably won't have the energy to do much of anything but 'grow people'."
"Honestly sweetie, what you should do is get out of here and don't look back. We're only dragging you down." She hated to say it but she'd been thinking about it for some time now. Sookie had the best chance of any of them of surviving and thriving in this new world, but if she clung to the family she'd be pulled down with the rest of them.