"I doubt you do," he thought back, leaning against the wall and looking out at the city. It was still strange - a familiar place made younger and unfamiliar in its youth.
"Yeah. I know that for a fact." After everything he'd seen in Bellum, he could hardly deny it. "We all are. You're new?" It might as well have been a statement. If she was still doubting the truth in that, she had to be.
He didn't think anything back at her for a moment, instead wondering if she was like Aaron - did she know what he was feeling? He hoped not. He wouldn't wish that on anyone, especially not lately. The silence on her end didn't strike him as strange. She was thinking at him, after all. It seemed like the sort of silence that happened in phone conversations when one party is distracted or has run out of things to say.
As for her question, he went with the simplest answer, the best one he could come up with honestly. "That's what I am."