[Marco sees it, when she reaches out toward him, but he's not really sure where she's going with it, and this is different than the usual kind of casual touch he might do when he's flirting with a girl or hanging out with a friend. It's not the comfortable kind of touching, so he instinctively ignores it.]

I mean, yeah, there was war. There's always war. Humans fight each other a lot. But yeah, it wasn't around me. Not in my country, you know? We had wars but they were on the other side of the planet.

[He shrugs his narrow shoulders, eyes down.]

I wasn't prepared. So I know how crappy that is.