"Ah, yes. It didn't really concern me, the Civil War." Which should be telling in and of itself. He shakes his head though, before reaching out to the inscription before him, ossa et dentibus illius ruminandum, and says something to someone...else? "EVA, would you be a dear and begin translating this?"

And then he turns back to the boy. "I of course wasn't referring to the illegality of your existence."