Another good thing: this guy caught on to details quick. No need to explain Zero's...incident with the nurses this morning (fortunately), for Gabe guessed it on his own before the once-Reploid could bother to reply. Hm. Once again, the man showed something that made his chances of survival here go up a little more. Good for him.

"There are," Zero confirmed after a small pause, though he was no longer staring in Gabe's general direction; his food was the focus of his attention now, as he began prodding it with his eating utensil. "...But it's not worth it to fight them during the day," he added a moment later. ...Understatement.

But he'd leave it at that. He wasn't exactly eager to recount a personal failure to a stranger. Getting energy back in his body...higher priority. And so he started to slowly cut his chicken up (as he'd seen the humans here do to their food plenty of times) for consumption.