Purgatory. Well, that's... strangely fitting, considering everything that's happened to them. He's almost surprised Mathias isn't called anything more like it. Inferno, maybe. Avalanche. Fogmound.

"That obvious, huh?"

He grins, not feeling any insult from the question.

"Chicago, born and bred. I'm not really used to small towns. ... Not that I've seen much of this one but I'm already full of city slicker prejudice. Or maybe that's just, you know. The whole kidnapping part."

And the murder fog. And the coming back from the dead. And the part where it's all horribly and horrifying.

"I'm sure it's lovely without all that."