Russell glances down at himself and then looks back up at Lee with a faint grin. "I ain't goin' anywhere," he says. "And if you want, I can tell you my own long story."

His story has significantly fewer algae rations, but only because there was no one left behind to eat. Sometimes he suddenly realizes that he, David and Judy were the last people left alive in Ogden Marsh. That all the people he's ever known are all dead.