"I guess when your options are the train or freezing to death, the train becomes a little less boring," she points out with a laugh, although he's not entirely wrong. Or maybe he wouldn't be wrong if Beth didn't get the sense the train had been pretty horribly split up into different classes with the people at the front getting everything and people at the back getting nothing. It sounds like it had been hard and she knows what that's like.

Hard means hobbies sort of fall by the wayside. Hard means survival becomes the only thing you really think about.

"He's been here for years, Nate, I think he's had the chance to move beyond just thinkin' about what it was like livin' on a train. He's got a whole life here. He works at Semele's."

And she realizes the second she says it, she probably shouldn't have. Nate's going to go there, he's going to scope him out, and she's just relieved for a second she hasn't said anything more identifying about Curtis. Nate will still find him, she's got no doubt of that, but she doesn't need to make it easier on him.