Brock certainly wasn't adverse to living out the nuclear scenario because there was something morbidly entertaining about that kind of fall out where he imagined himself on a boat fishing for the last days of his life. A man like him really had simple needs. Family wasn't one of them, and he didn't think that it ever would be even after finding his bond. Good thing neither of them wanted to touch each other.

"Disappointment is pretty much life in a nutshell," he agreed with a nod of his head. "You clearly have high standards ahead of you if you think appreciating how living is a baseline," he replied with a smirk. "Some of us are blessed to have made it passed six years old." Not that he was one of them, but he had heard a few stories here and there.