[Well that explains some things while also raising more questions. He has to tell himself it can't be the Armageddon he's trying to prevent, not if there are even a smattering of people left alive, but he still feels a little sick.

He pushes it down and gives her a slightly sardonic grin; Ellie doesn't strike him as the type to want sympathy, so he goes another route.]

Fair point, but then, you could've been born in the fourteenth century, would've had to deal with the Black Death while wearing several layers of dresses. And you'd have had to marry a man, so...

[The world always kind of sucks, is the thing.]