"Never? You're one of the ones that's done this a few times?"

He decides, right about then, that it's a good time to play up to her sympathies. After all, she's extending herself like an olive branch already, with that implicit offer to heal. He shuffles forward, playing up the limp, and towards the store so that they can get some cover.

"I only arrived moments before they stuffed me into a tube and blew some of the people standing next to me to hell. I don't know what kind of madhouse this all is."