[ He knows how to pick them, doesn't he? Young women who grew up way too fast and lost way too much. Why couldn't he pick someone who he had something safer in common with? Like bad sci-fi? ]
It's... a lot of things. [ He hasn't wanted to get into it in some feeble attempt to keep at least one friendship free of all the death and blood but maybe it's not fair to her. ]
...Maybe now's not the time. It's... it's a lot. A long story.