"Or," Kate started and held out a segment of orange to her. "The people who seem important are really just distractions. Maybe our captors're emotion eating monsters who took us away from home and trapped us here. They want to fatten us up by making us as sad as possible, so they make people disappear. Maybe our only way to fight back is to be happy anyway, since happiness gives them indigestion."

She offered her a little wry smile, so Newt knew she was aware of just how ridiculous an idea that was. "It's my theory, anyway. I'm not very good at being a resistance fighter, though. For now just getting by is all I can do."