Not your fault. People are just chosen to be taken away. I guess. [Keith scratches under the cat's chin and considers for once, avoiding the question. He doesn't want to relive the pain and Mira is empathic. But it comes out his voice quieter, tired.]

Then everyone I know vanished. We're on an island that's brainwashing people to fight an old war. Trying to keep them from killing each other.

There was a sunken city inbetween but. [He shrugs. Doubtless he's curled up inside some foliage to keep himself safe while war rages around him and will wake up there alone again.]