James would have been surprised to know that she was so troubled by those thoughts. The fact that you couldn't force a person to think something (ok, so maybe there were some loopholes) was free will, and to him it was amazing. Maybe it was because of his own lost childhood, a prisoner at the mercy of the kind of people who trained a child to be a stone cold killer. Once a person lived through something like that, every sign of freedom was something to treasure. Tori's commentary, though, caught him enough off guard that he put down his drink. Of course, he wanted to say he was projecting nothing, that he actually was unbeatable. But that was foolish at best, and he wasn't prone to foolishness. "I suppose we are," he said instead. He was glad she continued talking, because it had given him a way out.
James cocked an eyebrow when she said she didn't know about family. There was a story there. But he didn't really know about family, either. The Captain had been the closest he'd had, and while he had been a great mentor and inspiration to him, James was pretty certain that he really didn't understand the concept of family. Not the way other people did. He was quiet for a moment and then ventured, "I think a lot of us come here without families. Or, without families we can rely on. People are social - we have to have connections. so we create our own family here. I don't think it's weird... Maybe unexpected." Of course, James was talking like he believed in all this. At best, he was a Judas here. It was a strange thing to be talking to Tori about.