There's another huff of a laugh - this one is more genuine, almost fond, even in the face of the bleak subject at hand.

"That sounds about right. Figures that we'd still be bickering with each other, even after the world's fallen apart."

He hesitates, for a moment, before speaking again. The question is there, but it takes some effort to decide to ask it. He isn't sure that the answer is going to be something that will be easy for either of them to hear.

"...Did any of your tapes from the future tell you if you made it? I don't suppose there was... much of you left, if you were as bad off as it sounds."