"Not many for quite a long while, truth be told. We spent a while thinking we were running from the network when it turned out they'd tracked us the whole time, so that was a fun little reminder that we didn't have control over anything. But once it was all over...we kind of had an abundance of choice to go where we wanted and live however we pleased."

A pause, Ardyn thinking that over before adding: "It was kind of strange, honestly. But in a good way."

He pulled his knees closer to his chest so he could lean his head on his arm, looking thoughtful for a minute before he addressed the second point.

"...You're the first person on Eos in two thousand years to ever have gone looking for proof that I existed, much less found it. Perhaps that's nothing to you, but it's...significant, to me."