[Ned nods empathetically. The corners of his lips tug downwards.] I've only just arrived myself, but I found out that four of my six children are in stasis, as is my wife. Two of them only just returned prior to my arrival.

[There's a certain sadness in his gaze.] They tell me that there is no safer place for them, but it is a dagger through the heart to be separated from them.