There is always that, and it wouldn't be entirely unwarranted if he knew the full situation.

"Well," he looked up at her, "it is."

He came from a very different world than most people here, it seemed. His world knew heartache, and pain, and very real dilemmas. His world knew failure, and unfairness.

"People sometimes, uhm. They just dont understand. They havent been crushed by reality enough to see how idealistic they are yet." He shrugged. "They just dont know."

Probably the most he'd talked in a long time but hed noticed this himself.