He chuckled. "Yeah, flat," he agreed. "And maybe." He was used to living alone. He left the Manor after the war to live in a cottage in the English countryside. Truthfully? He'd spoken to more people in Goodland than he had in ages. Still, he didn't want to rock the boat. "I sort of had my full of all powerful beings," he admitted. There was something about Tia that made him drop his guard. Perhaps because she didn't know him before the war. "Sort of fell in with a bad one back home."