Not well seems to be the general answer for most people. This isn't the kind of place anyone exactly seems to thrive, but he'd hoped that they'd all manage to find a way to do better than this. He watches her pour the water, and then nods several times, almost absentmindedly.

"Alive is hardly a ringing endorsement, but I'm finding it's the best any of us can say. Sorry to hear about your housemate."

In an abstract sense, he is. He has no idea who her housemate was, or if he knew them, but that's the kind of thing one says in a situation like this, isn't it?