The dismay and crushing defeat show on Kieren's face quickly as she steps back in fear. He's used to that reaction, it's only that after she'd helped him, maybe he'd thought...except, no. Simon's been right all this time, no matter how Kieren doesn't want to listen. They're different and they're feared.

All he can think of, right now, is Lisa Lancaster and her parents, so utterly hopeful that his bite had turned her; only, it's not like that, not at all. "Where I come from, people who died three years ago, we all rose," he says, confusion echoing in his words. "And, yes, we were rabid and dangerous, but they found a cure and they brought us all back. I don't want to cause any more harm," he protests earnestly. "I'm tired of seeing people getting hurt. I'm so ready to move past that," he says, thinking of Rick and of the tram and the Ravenshead Massacre and just all of it.