For what it's worth, he was in no position to pass warnings or cautionary tales about a people I don't know. About a people no one here knows. [Quick to reassure—to apply some even footing. Clarke barely knows Jon herself. He says she asks a lot of questions, but it seems that he's all too keen to share the answers. He has a mind for politics, for what they're doing here. She has the impression it may be that way for most people from his world.

Which is a welcome thing. Not everyone here is politically inclined.]

For better or worse, you won't have to worry about anything like that here. [Unless more people from her world show up, the types who would say that. Clarke's disinclined to add this.] We all start from nothing. [A beat.] Started, in my case. [She's in a better place than she was from the start.]