Perhaps one reason for the flip-flopping was because there wasn't much he could say about his past...and most of it that wasn't classified in some way, shape, or form were memories he wanted to forget.

He nodded his head. "It'll be good to have someone else around. It's unnerving how quiet this place can be sometimes."

At least when training under One, there'd been the chaos of the Numbers training to deal with. None of them had gone EVO and they certainly weren't superpowered, but they were more than skilled enough to give the illusion of having supernatural powers.