Eric laughed. It was hard not to around Claudia. "Good attitude," he said. In a way she reminded him of Abby, the way she'd been before they came here. Strong, independent and strange. It wasn't the same brand of strange, but never the less strange. He had more than once wondered what had happened to that Abby, how she had turned into the person he'd met here.
Maybe she'd needed to have a bit more of Claudia's attitude towards having her life turned upside down? He pushed the thought away, it didn't matter now anyway. "So tell me about your brother," he said. "What is he like? Is he your only family?"