The same excited expression remained on Negan's face until she mentioned the children. Well, fuck. "Jesus. I was hoping for a no, but not that." That was fucked up. He and his men had killed kids before, but they'd never do that shit. Plus, it was one thing to kill kids as an accessory of war, but it was another to make them your only target. Besides, Negan didn't like killing kids, the same way he didn't like killing women. It only happened when he needed to prove a point.
As for the other part? It sounded nicer than he'd admit. It was something he'd never cared about having until it was taken away from him. It was also something he hadn't thought about in a long time, because that sort of life wasn't a possibility for anyone back home anymore.
"Something good's something good. No point reading into it." It said something about Gretel that that was the best thing that had happened to her. She wanted a normal life. After being stuck in this hotel for however long, he couldn't blame her. Speaking of...
"So how long have you been here?" This was starting to look like a permanent situation, something he was surprisingly... okay with. There wasn't much good to go back to. "And how many of us poor fucks are there?"