There is that, he has to admit. As nice as it is to be somewhere where he can look forward to things that aren't simply being dead, there isn't really a lot of places where one can simply blow off steam. Admittedly, he might have the harder time of that than she does, by virtue of how deep his own emotions tend to run, when they start to hit that end of the scale. But even so, there's no denying that it is very much a quiet sort of village, and not well suited to the things that either of them would have considered to simply be a part of their lives, previously.

"I've never asked. But I would assume that most of them haven't."

He might not have lived through it the way Ashley has, true. But that doesn't mean that he doesn't very much know what the outcome of being someone's pet project can look like. And given that to the best of his knowledge no one even knows where to find the Observers, it's unlikely that he'll be able to bring the fight to them as easily as he'd been able to with the Cabal.

Unfortunately, the question Ashley asks isn't one that he has the answer to. He knows that the machine works, otherwise he wouldn't have his teleportation and Ashley wouldn't be able to do what she's doing know. But how it works is beyond him.

"I'm not sure anyone knows how it works."

If he's noticed the jab, meanwhile, he's not saying anything about it, yet.