"If all they wanted was for us to not be wandering around, there are easier ways to do that than taking us in."

Wash doesn't explain further than that, he doesn't feel like he needs to. Leaving them out in the cold to die was a perfectly viable option. So was killing them there and then, just to be sure. In some kind of war situation, extra mouths to feed, people of mysterious origin that might turn out to have some relation to the enemy . . . Then again, they don't particularly seem short on supplies. Still, it's more than suspect.

He does nod in agreement with that statement, though. Wash is still really only dressed in the under-armor bodysuit and that does provide some thermal protection, but not to that degree. It's mostly designed to deal with heating, besides.

"Hopefully they won't throw you out there for having a cold," he says a moment later. Haha? Hah.