"Orphan," he answers simply. It's a fact he's come to terms with long ago. She's shared enough about herself that he's willing to offer a piece of personal history as an offering. Hopefully it'd make her more willing to share later. "My brother and father died when I was fifteen, my mother shortly after."

Not the entire truth though close enough to it. Whatever was left of his father had died that day as far as he was concerned.