"Can't blame them for that either. You get dragged into something you didn't chose, and who wants to deal with that all their lives?" Arching a brow as he puts that in words, head canting and dipping slightly.

"And yes, in particular. Both of us into a life we didn't chose, and not living an entirely normal, as you call it, baseline life," he says, gesturing broadly with his hands as if there's nothing to do be done about it.