"True, but they are here, and supposedly alive. As opposed to supposedly destroyed with the rest of your world." Still, he scrunches his eyebrows together as she talks of her son and being alone. "Yeah," he nods, "I'm alone too. It isn't easy. But you'll meet people who might make it a little easier, I suppose."

He waves a hand then, shaking his head. "They offered me power. The kind I'd never be able to get on my own. I haven't seen a lick of improvement in my abilities though. I guess I haven't followed their agenda closely enough." He shrugs. He's found other things more important than power, anyway.

His eyebrows raise. "1487... that was a long time ago. Things have definitely changed. It... must be difficult to hear that."