Howard rolls his fingers over his other hand and bites his lip. "Lucky you."

If he's being honest, he's seen people do brave and selfless things on the ship. But those still pale compared to what he remembers from home - Stacy is, if anything, much less utterly demoralizing than the FAYZ was. And all Howard can deduce from that is that given a situation exhausting and desperate enough, the world can beat the brave and selfless right out of even the purest people.

"Did they end up dead? The people doing the brave and selfless stuff?"