"Aren't all people going to die someday?" Jo asked.
So. Denial ran deep. Unless there was some truth to what he was saying... Was this some sort of test? To see if she would accept it or just get convinced to stay in denial, living in between? She was going to have to give up on the kid though. She'd tried. She really had.
"So no hellhounds here? That's already better than the last place I was," she said with a small smile.
Best to keep it light. The less she actively thought about the hellhounds and what it had felt like to have their hot breath on her just seconds before their teeth tore at her skin the better.