Kinner nods, to reassure Jim that he's safe and well. "I'm fine. The creature that kiled me can't follow me here. I mean, I would've rather not died, but that's the way of things, I guess."

He wonders if any of the others would find their way here. Like Jim, he both wishes and doesn't wish to see anyone on his team in the Nexus. If they came, he would hope it wasn't because they died like him. He wouldn't wish death at the tentacles of the Thing on anybody, least of all his crew.

"Yes. I have an apartment I've rented and a food cart in the Plaza."