[He shifts his weight between his feet and crosses his arms.

Bluntly:]

Well it started when we were kidnapped by some psychos into some middle of nowheresville forest horror compound in the Midwest. Sometimes they made us kill each other, then they'd bring us back t'life. Still not really clear on why. We got lumped in the same house with a buncha other weirdos, mostly from different worlds too.

Pretty sure if I tell you I'm from the United States, it's not gonna mean anything.