That meant they weren't pretty stories and fair enough. Most any story from that era wasn't pretty for one reason or another, point in fact - the reason that Matthew doesn't talk about his past in detail either. Areas were fine; France, Germany, Russia, Georgia, but he always skipped the details of who and why.

The Poor. No matter what era, the poor always had it the worst. Matthew had avoided Irland for.. unflattering reasons, but people stacked on top of people was not unique to the Emerald Isle.

"So true country is new to you... How long were you there?" He knew that Cass caught a ship, probably landed in New York and restarted his vampiric life there, but it was all guess work.