Her question made him fall silent, and he was quiet for a while. The silence stretched for long enough that Nita may think that she'd said something wrong.

"...I had never thought of it that way." His tone was thoughtful. He would never admit to it on his own but he always tended towards a more cynical point of view. It was always someone else that helped guide him towards something less bleak.

"I suppose we would not be taken from our homes if we were not of some value to someone or, I guess in this case, something. We were chosen to be heroes, after all."