"I think she's been trying to do it most of her 'life'," Sam replied, the air quotes around 'life' completely audible if you had reason to be listening for them the way he was now positive Caroline did. He'd almost said 'death' but if they were overheard, that might put Caroline in danger and he didn't want that.

"Kinda hard on her diet. But having someone to lean on helped." This was the stupidest code conversation, seriously. But it'd be dumb as hell to ask Caroline outright if she had a foodsource. She must. She'd been here for months.