[ Deacon's story feels strange for the simple fact that it's a little too familiar, a little too possible in his own world. For all he knows, what happened in Deacon's world might be the future of his own, and something like that never sits too comfortably with someone. ]

Sounds cheerful. [ An obviously sardonic remark. ] So it's like... a post-apocalyptic kind of situation? How large is the world's population there now, do you even know?