Having always been prone to foot-in-mouth disease, Spencer immediately realizes when he's done it again.

"Sorry, that was thoughtless of me," he apologizes, wincing. Not everybody has people they miss. He's lucky, he knows; he'd found a family in his team, and not everybody gets something like that. Some people are just alone, or stuck with people they don't get on with, or in terrible situations.

If he hadn't had his team, he thinks the only person he'd be missing is his mother. He's been looking for her too, but unlike his faith in his team's ability to survive, he... privately doubts that his mom was as lucky, and it breaks his heart. Hospitals, mental hospitals, and nursing homes had been hit particularly hard with the outbreak. Vulnerable populations, enclosed spaces. He frequently has nightmares about finding her walking corpse.

"If you kept an eye out, that'd be really kind of you," he adds. "I'm done with the questions, by the way. I promise I won't be bothering your group for too long."

(He kind of wants to bother Daryl more, actually. He's interesting.)

"Can I get you anything, by the way? How are you settling in?"