Silas" condition worsened as the temperatures began to drop. He had refused treatment in every manner possible, knowing it would do them no good to waste the money on his condition. He'd decided that he had been exposed long before the clinic was formed, as it often took time for tuberculosis to enter into late stages, and couldn't pinpoint where he'd picked it up, but assumed it must have been when he visited his mother at some point. He'd given up that day, when he'd trashed the living room of the apartment.