His own grin broke across his face and he laughed, too. "Even three years ago I would have laughed that person right out of the bar." Because in Halo, that's where crazy news was spread. While Noah hadn't meant by what he said that he was adjusting to the larger world changes about them, he let his mind go there as Wessex did. He wasn't close enough to reveal to the demigoddess that he was adjusting to life with a broken heart and an empty house once more.
"What was this place, before?" He asked, going back to gathering splintered and shatter wood.