He sounds so excited about it, too. Unfortunately he misses the way Charles's brow furrows, the sympathetic look he's being given, before he finally turns his gaze back to the open valley. "Would you believe this isn't the first time this has happened? Turning up somewhere strange, I mean," he replies, almost chuckling.

"Place I was before was a city. Not underground but...with screens and machines a lot like this place. Took a while getting used to it all, and then I wound up here."

But if this place can give them even the illusion of home? It's a step up, where he's concerned.