True. Though I wouldn't say we got past safety on Maslow's hierarchy very often, [ Root responds dryly.

She's not ashamed of them being better off than the veritable hellscape Carver had come from, but she's not going to pretend they were living large, either. Root found it bearable in living conditions but constantly terrifying in possible consequences.

Root isn't too surprised he didn't respond to her obvious fishing, but since he didn't, her curiosity remains. ]

It's an adjustment being here for me, too. [ Maybe her frankness will lure out some honesty in return. ] I keep thinking there will be enemy agents around every corner. Even the missions don't sound that exciting.