Phanan listened with fascination to the stories of time travel - after all, who wouldn't find that interesting? He had already met the Doctor here and liked him, but he had not really realized Martha had traveled with him.
And then the story got a lot darker. "Doing what you did for a whole year, that sounds hard," He said, knowing it was an understatement. That sort of thing took a lot of courage; he didn't know if there was anything he believed in enough to sacrifice that much. It was different than his work - that was a job, he had signed up for it knowing it was going to be hard, but she had been dropped in the middle of something awful without the benefit of special ops training or preparation, and she'd kept going anyway.