If you wanna call people crowding together to keep from dying on their own a base camp, then sure. [There’s some of the old humor in there, but it’s all still dry.] There’s a few of ’em since we’ve all been moving around from place to place. Not really much in the way of supplies to really hunker down somewhere and make a proper camp though.

[He watches Steve for a moment, glances toward where the nearest encampment is, then looks back toward his friend.]

Fact is most of them aren’t soldiers. Not like us, anyway. [Survivors, he means.]