Not for her he wanted to say, but he could barely believe River's aptitude for ... everything, without trying to make a stranger believe how easily everything came to his sister. "It's interesting that someone who looks like her was drawn here," Simon countered as he regarded Allison.
He nodded slightly, but it wasn't as though he could know what was going on at home. Was he gone? Was this place actually outside of time and his absence wouldn't be noted because he'd be returned? He wished someone had the answers -- and that he knew who they were.
"It ..." He shook his head and frowned. How to even describe it? "We had a lot of ... adventures," he said. "I ... well, we ... the crew ... they were ..." Simon sighed. He didn't want to say criminals -- though it was truth -- because that just painted the wrong shade of a picture. "We did odd jobs," he settled on. "I ... wasn't on the field so much. Not great with guns, and they needed me inside to treat the ... injuries that did occur.
"But we traveled all over the galaxy, taking work where it was. Saw ... everything. Core planets, border moons." Whorehouses. Death. So much death. Reavers. He half-closed his eyes before he opened them again. "It's a very busy life. What ... what about yours? What was your life like at home?"