"Yeah, I know. I've always been bad at talking about this kind of thing." Talking about the past was always tricky, and he'd been getting a good workout with it since he wound up with the Legion. A few too many people either had some inkling of his sordid supervillain phase, or it found a way to come up with the people who didn't know about it. It felt like it was understating things to get it down to the bare facts, but neither did he really want to get into all of the fine details of the worst years of his life.

He was in no way going to judge if things were a little disjointed, was the bottom line.

Still, there was one obvious question that came up first when you were trying to discuss a loss, so maybe that was the place to start. "Who was it?"