A long breath and he smiled, a smile that remembered better things.
"We dated off and on for years, but got serious about each other in the last year and a half. Things were good. And then... My island ewwas built using tech from a future timeline, and some bad guys came looking for it. She evacuated the island while I went to dropkick the timecore elsewhen, but then I got jumped. Before long, I was crashing into your tub."
He chuckled. "All in all, I wish, no offense, I had not had her running the evac. No one else I could trust, though."