( Curtis has to admire an attitude like that, gung ho and determined. He'd honestly thought those two traits had been beaten and starved out of him but he'd managed to pull the remnants from somewhere deep inside of him in order to try and get to the front of the train.

Now, there's no train and Curtis isn't sure he has anything but exhaustion and pain left inside of him. )

Pretty new, yeah. I woke up here a little while ago.

( When you were expecting to be dead, waking up was a strange and dizzying thing. It had take him some time to acclimate. )

Didn't know this place even had food. I hadn't gotten that far.

( In his mind's eye, he sees the image of a protein block and has to fight the urge to vomit. )