"Few years ahead?" Eh? So when's that? 'A few years' could be one year or twelve.

[He glanced at the cake momentarily, mind still racing. A "while"? So getting out of this place wasn't going to be an easy process--It wasn't like Naomi was a dumb woman, after all. Was it because she COULDN'T find her way out?

Or she didn't want to?]