The question shocks him somewhat. He appreciates that Ross doesn't ask the finer details, but he hadn't expected him to ask about the aftermath, either. Matthew hasn't spoken about KIRIN to anyone; in fact this is the most he's spoken of it since it happened. The first day, when he'd been freed and gone to the carnival for something to distract his wandering thoughts, Dutch had asked him if he was okay. They hadn't talked about it and he'd shrugged the entire matter off like it was nothing. They'd been friends then but not overly close, and he hadn't wanted to burden her.

"I was relatively new here," he explains. Darrow is full of people who have built friends and families and lives here but when he'd been taken, he'd only been in the city two months and the list of people he knew was very few. He thinks it would be different, now. "But I managed."

He's never spoken to anyone about Redport, either, he thinks. Maybe that's the kind of thing you're supposed to do, talk to people close to you about the things that cause you grief, but he's never had the opportunity. He was snatched from Elspeth and Dameon seconds after reuniting with them, with no time to talk about what those eight years had done to him. Here he's not talked about it to anyone except in brief passing. "Thank ye for the generosity though," he says, raising his glass a little in thanks. He doesn't know whether he'd ever take Ross up on the offer but he appreciates the gesture all the same.