I know.

[It comes as a sigh of agreement, an echo of their shared contact. Support, voiced as well as given to her as she leans against him.]

We didn't know what we were getting into at first. And I'm not normally one to settle for something that sounds too good to be true without asking a few questions, but at the time I was desperate to take what seemed like my only option.

[He hesitates briefly, because he hasn't really told anyone this so directly, but,]

I'd be dead if not for this place. Maybe that's part of the plan, though. Pick out easy targets who are too eager to agree.