"Yeah but he's the one I'd do anything to get back." Not that he didn't miss the others, he did. It was just different with Sean. Alex had lost friends who weren't mutants as well, he didn't even add in all the people he'd known when he'd served. That was how it looked from his point as well, you were just born to lose somehow.
He smiled at that. She would be safer away from it all. She deserved a chance at a life. "You were travelling? Have you been to Ireland? We went one summer, stayed with his, your family..." He started lifting his beer but he stopped. "You never say a bad word about the fae." Alex had learned some of the folklore and honestly they sounded scary so he always said thank you to them.