In a way, he ends up making her feel worse because she's definitely given up on her world while he's still fighting for his. Or worlds. Galaxy. Whatever. If Tessa truly has a cure locked away in her DNA, is it selfish to want to leave her world behind? Even after everything the doctors did to her?

A hardened voice in her head says screw it. This place just needs to bring Mike in too and then it'll have all she needs of her own world. It can stay there, rotting and decaying as the zombies run out of people and animals to devour and rip themselves apart.

"Yeah. It's really not gonna get better so... I need to see if the gods will let me stay."