Aaron frowned slightly at the response. "I'm sorry to hear that." Though if the apocalypse and his life before it even have taught him anything, it's that family means nothing of the blood and far more of the companionship.

"And yeah, it is, even for people like me, and we come from a place where people write books about this kind of thing. Fiction, fairy tales, but...it's not outside the ideas people have explored." He chuckles slightly. "I never thought I'd see it."