"I'm glad you've been well," he said, voice still light. When she mentioned he was in shock, he considered this and then said, "I just saw one man uproot the power plant down the block from my house. I almost died. And I ran here from Queens." So yes, he was probably a bit shocked.

He shifted stiffly, so to let her have more room to work with.

He gave her a withering Look that lacked any real strength or conviction. "You should like my sister," he said after a long moment. "I don't really know... it's blurry. I'm tired. I haven't slept well." He paused and thought. "He struck first," he said this as though it took effort to remember. Why had he been there? He tried to remember. "I saw that place in a dream."