Staying in the crash room was starting to get stifling, but until she had a finished hut, it wasn't like there was anywhere else for Pam to stay, and despite herself, she was almost -- but not quite -- starting to get used to it. With as strange as everything was here, it was all she could do to try to adjust right away. Otherwise, it'd just be more difficult.

At the sound of Karen's voice, she glanced up from where she'd been sitting cross-legged on the bed she'd temporarily claimed, and a smile spread across her face instantly. All things considered, she didn't think she'd ever been quite so glad to see Karen before. Back home, she probably never would have been, anyway. If she'd gone through with what she'd intended to say after the coal walk, there would've been no better way to make things permanently awkward between them.

That hadn't happened here, though, and Pam was on her feet before even responding. "I say I definitely can't turn down an offer like that," she replied with one short nod, and crossed the rest of the distance to the doorway. "Where to?"

Not that it mattered. Anything would have been preferable to the crash room.