"In my last recollection, I was attending to business with my partner and neither of us suspected anything off. I awoke upon arrival in a train car without her." His lips thin briefly, but he doesn't let the troubled expression linger. That was truly worrisome, knowing he'd been separated from Fran. She was canny enough to be on the better end of the bargain, or so he hoped.

Pushing that out of his mind, he makes a point to scoff, "Electrified rail-- I thought it outrageous right until I realized the whole city seems powered thus."