Jo eyes brows hike a little more up in an interesting level of outside-of-body bewilderment as she processes that opposite side of a speech she's given but never once heard in her life directed at her. She'd come in at birth. Sure there must have been a point she didn't know and then did know, but it's so far back it's from before she has solid childhood memories.

"Yeah," Jo says, a little offbeat. Then, she gave a shake of her head.
"That sounds a lot like the kind of place I'm from, too."

The earnestness there really doesn't shake off him, even for the seriousness, does it?

"Sad to say, kid. You're probably stuck for a while. No revolving doors in this place, or I would have hit it a long time ago." People did happen to vanish in the night, but no one could definitively say where they'd gone and if gone was home. Which was fuck all not comforting, too. "Hopefully, your family'll do okay carrying the load for a while."