[Part of him considers arguing that first point, since he's been 'assigned' the safehouse issue and chastised for complaining about it without having already come up with a solution, so he's pretty sure he's indeed supposed to be fixing everything. And that's only just one issue, let alone what he'd been doing with helping Clarke organize things, with letting Gene know he could be on call for the hospital, with the general daily work of trying to help people who've returned from the Aerie, with trying to account for problems that might happen and plan for them so that people don't get caught off guard. There's so much that has to be done.

But he doesn't say any of that, because there's no point, it's just more complaining and he's already been yelled at enough for that. So instead, when Kyna mentions the Aerie, he gives a small shrug and still doesn't look at her, but he does actually give her an answer.]

It wasn't much to talk about. I just had a relatively normal life until I started working against the system, was found out, and ended up dead. Just like at home.

[Just like he'd narrowly avoided in Hadriel, too. And, maybe in a way, like here.]