"Thank you for sharing." His tone implies he heavily regrets starting this conversation, but here he is continuing it, so who's the fool now? "In any case, our circumstances are a mystery to me as well. That, at least, we have in common."

And nothing else, surely. Though...

Hubert hesitates. Even asking this feels like admitting some kind of vulnerability, but he'll need to broach the subject sometime if he wants to gather as much information as he can. It's necessary. He's not even sure why he's reluctant. Ultimately, it doesn't matter.

"Was your world also destroyed to bring you here?"