"You have?" Time to be unassuming and, considering she had never seen the Ohm to begin with, playing that up was pretty easy. "I've only heard about them. What are they like?"

She did look sad. "Sorry to hear that. Mom overdosed on pills. She ran into some trouble. Dad was pretty broken up about it."

And at least, he could assume her dad was alive. How her dad died was Hit Girl's story, and was a million times worse than when her mother died.