"I'd say I felt that way about my team back where I came from. We didn't see eye to eye on everything, but until the Thing showed up we were doing just fine. It's a shame things ended the way they did. I just hope I can find out what happened to everyone else one of these days. The Thing has to have caught more people than just me."

Kinner matches her smile, but his is more than a little sad.

"I'd mention my old Army crew, but by 1938 there weren't so many of us left. People who didn't die in battle died of the Spanish flu."