"It's got a lot of problems, but...home is home." Axl shrugged. "I've heard that a lot of stuff used to be better, but it's kinda hard to miss the stuff I never saw in the first place." Not like some of the other Hunters he knew, who'd watched their world go from okay to bad to worse. It took some mental stretching for him to imagine what things must've been like before the wars started.

"-- not that I'd let anyone screw it up worse, though," he amended. It was a real scrapheap of a world, after eight wars, but it was his scrapheap.