"Two sodas. I'm a man of means now." Dan walks a few feet away to where he's decided a good entry point would be; he can't see it through the fog, but he knows that there's a relatively unobstructed path to the road here on a clear day.

"Me and Aster done run into them when we tried to drive out of town. The car broke down in a way that...I still can't wrap my head around how it might could have happened." And Dan knows machines. "So we tried following the road and ran into those things when we were only getting a little off-track. Probably a good idea to follow the road and use it as a landmark."