Bum's world was peaceful enough -- or as peaceful as the regular world was around the 2016s. And yet he was here, through another cruel grimace of fate no doubt, not that he himself had any doubts about deserving to be here.

He nods a little at the question, frowning.

"Sometimes... it's like everything around us -- switches out for a moment." Or maybe he's having some kind of an advanced psychosis after the 'treatment' he received, wouldn't that be just typical. "Did you notice anything like that?"