Joe has to be the least conspicuous name for a guy who looks like he strings people up for fun, but Len has heard weirder. Folk back home range anywhere from Victor to Vulpes Inculta, with a wide variety in-between. Len tips his head in vague acquiescence - it's a fair assumption, even if it's chronologically off by a couple of centuries.

"They called it America, a long time ago. There was a nuclear war."

He gets the impression that whatever Joe's world is like, it isn't all that dissimilar.

"Just wastelands now. Most of the big cities are gone. You?"