"Yes, he...said as much."

Lying was awkwardly executed when you had no clear goal in mind and literally staring down your own past. All social graces fly out the window with the Shadowplay and where long winded diatribes failed to save him, Shockwave was falling back on rusted attempts to make simple conversation near impossible. Especially when angling to lessen the blow of a hard truth when for so long such a thing would have never occurred to him.

"I'm sorry this must be a lot to take in."