"A--" He hesitates, then exhales with a sheepish laugh, shaking his head and looking elsewhere. "No. No, nobody...not anyone I know from before, no. Just people who also got sucked into the nightmare before."

There's no need for extrasensory powers to tell that the isolation from family and the familiar bothers him, even after so long; humans are inherently social, familial creatures, after all.

"Most of them are gone now, too." And that sting is fresher, more consistent.