"I'll consider that substantial progress." Why not joke about it, given that their circumstances were pretty funny.

"I know that the Boss wouldn't have wanted what happened to you. If you take everything she went through, everything she saw, all that she hated about what the constant cycle of war did... she wouldn't have wanted it."

He saw what looked like a maintenance shed, and looked to Joy. She huffed a soft bark, meaning she smelled something dangerous over there (likely another trap) which meant there was probably something good, too. Wonderful how that usually worked out.