"They never were," he clarifies. He looked through the roster after all. "...But...they all died, before I woke up here, yeah." Right before, but he doesn't say that much. The fact that he was crying probably gives that away anyway. "I stopped the one who did it," killed, he doesn't say, "...but it doesn't take back that they're gone."

It's a forced, pained, small smile he has, as he makes himself grab a few more pieces to put away. It's not much a distraction but it's a small one after all.