He likes hearing about the world Matthias came from; it sounds similar to what he imagines old Earth had been like centuries before his own time, and it's always odd when he compares it to his own life growing up on the Ark.

They'd looked back on humanity as a whole and thought they'd done so much better when in the end, they'd only made things worse.

"Hey, you had meat," he points out brightly. "I didn't have real meat until a year and a half ago."

Irradiated and mutated as the animals on the ground had been, it was still one of the best meals of Bellamy's life.