Beth takes the bottle when he hands it back to her and she watches him for a moment before deciding to just push on. He's going to find out one way or another that he can't get out of Darrow and she doesn't like being the bearer of bad news, but it's probably better he find out from her than someone who's not going to be so nice about it or someone who's going to give him a hard time because he's not from here.
"You can't leave," she says gently. "I know it sounds crazy, but this place sorta just... it just takes people and it doesn't let them leave." Sometimes it does, but once she gets into all that, the rules of this place end up seeming weird and complicated and she knows it's best to keep things simple for someone who's only just arrived. "You can head out toward the edges of the city and once you get there, you just get turned back around somehow and you'll find yourself walking back down the streets toward downtown."
She's tried it. She hadn't really wanted to leave, not when it was safe and free of walkers, but she's curious by nature and she'd had to try.
"This is probably about the time you start thinkin' I'm the crazy one, but I swear, I'm not either," she says. "There's gonna be a package waiting for you at the train station. Same as there was for me and everyone else. It'll have your name on it and it'll have money for you and a phone, but the phone'll only work within the city."
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"You can't leave," she says gently. "I know it sounds crazy, but this place sorta just... it just takes people and it doesn't let them leave." Sometimes it does, but once she gets into all that, the rules of this place end up seeming weird and complicated and she knows it's best to keep things simple for someone who's only just arrived. "You can head out toward the edges of the city and once you get there, you just get turned back around somehow and you'll find yourself walking back down the streets toward downtown."
She's tried it. She hadn't really wanted to leave, not when it was safe and free of walkers, but she's curious by nature and she'd had to try.
"This is probably about the time you start thinkin' I'm the crazy one, but I swear, I'm not either," she says. "There's gonna be a package waiting for you at the train station. Same as there was for me and everyone else. It'll have your name on it and it'll have money for you and a phone, but the phone'll only work within the city."