"Just stay put, will you?" he asked, tone a little more on the pleading side. He didn't want her wandering off and getting lost and missing him as he made his way to her. "We ain't anywhere near where we were. Someone grabbed a lot of us from a lot of places and dropped us here. Been here about three weeks already. Sorry for not calling."

Because if he and Glenn had been there three weeks, the group would have had to notice them going missing.