[He shifts a little uncomfortably. Talking about the Tower is easy enough. Talking about that...]

My mother... she... was killed. In an accident. But no one believed me - or they believed me and covered it up. I didn't have relatives to take me in, and... the man that showed up at the hospital... I didn't trust him, so I ran away. He turned out to not have good intentions later anyway, but... I lived on the streets for a while before a group with similar abilities to me took me in. They were runaways, too. So... I never went.

Now that things are... better at home... I plan on going back. I should be able to catch up okay. I tried to study a lot of different things in the library in the Tower, even if it wasn't like classes.

[And if it gets really bad he'll just... run to Waver's world as a last resort. It's not like they'd turn him away.]