Cable is going to circle back to the benefits of an older man somewhere down the line; for now he focuses on the part about his first wife. "In the time that I'm from, war is pretty common." He pauses in his words, finding it strange that he would open up like this to someone else. There's something to be said about being in a place such as the Quarantine. It wasn't unlike the times Cable has found himself displaced in some sort of far off or alternate future.

That was probably why he didn't have a problem divulging this stuff to Mikumo. There was something to her that he liked--or maybe appreciated. Knowing him, it was probably both. "She was killed."