[hider=ooc]I know it's a really short post, but I don't want to dilute important-backstory-character-development stuff with things that I can put in the next post.[/hider]

"Have I ever lived outside here?"

He goes quiet and looks out of the window for a minute or two. When he next speaks, it's in a cold, detached tone, almost as if he's forcing himself not to feel what he's talking about.

"Yes, once. Up until I was five, I lived with my mother, down there in the Ruins. One day I came home from scavenging and found that a gang of thugs had come to our house. They'd stolen everything, and my mother had been beaten and violated. She died three days later. After that, I was alone, except for Sam, my brother. He was killed a year later by the same gang of thugs."