"Damn... Della said a while back they saw some illusions on the train. Wish I could ask her exactly how long that was," he mutters, just thinking to himself. Then continues. "Sanzo said his boy's age was off. He wasn't a kid, he was a teenager. Grown up an' changed in ways he wouldn't have expected. Asch seemed pretty sure. And I don't believe I could imagine up the stink-eye this fella gives to people what act dumb around 'im."

He refers to Wash there. They'd only interacted for a few days and part of that time was Yondu trying to frantically regain his bearings. But he'd seen him enough to know that his mannerisms were that of a genuinely unimagined soul.

"Someone real powerful an' I suspect real young must of made it away. Sounded real young when they was pickin' at us on the last mission, anyway." Then, to explain to Wash, he continues. "This thing, it decided to start tryin' out tricks on different levels of this real shithole of a city. One level all places, one animals, one was controllin' people's minds an' emotions with illusions, an' one was takin' 'em over through electronics. Just knockin' 'em clean out. Once we started makin' headway it walked ever'body out into this fatal wasteland. We had to follow an' it set up a maze for us, full of stuff we dug out of our own heads."

Stuff he doesn't care to remember, but if this poor guy's been caught up in it, it's best that he knows.

"Includin' people we cared about. I saw my old team leader in there. Just tryin' to lure me in and keep me put." And how much he cared for that person he'll keep to himself. "So that's why she's wonderin'."