[he's silent for a beat. he'd thought she'd understand; the question surprises him. but he'd thought a lot of things]
--Back home, the war that I fought, the horrors that I dedicated my life to preventing, are still happening. Just because there's no reminder of it here doesn't mean it's ended.
And it isn't like this place is all that peaceful, either. Every few days someone tries to kill someone [sometimes it's him] or our lives get disrupted by people coming and going, if not everybody suddenly losing their ability to hear or turning into children or what have you.