It's a strange situation to try and explain, especially to someone who doesn't exactly know the world she's come from, and Andrea tilts her head, considering her options. There's no real reason to lie to Fred, though, especially not since she's so close to Spike.

"It's sort of a long story," she says finally, then laughs. "But the world I came from was pretty much overrun by zombies and food was scarce. It made a lot of people do some pretty terrible things, including... well, they ate part of my boyfriend at the time. We were stuck there. Dealing with those people over and over again."