There's a glint of reproach in Skan's eye, at the question. Of course, of course you are family, you silly fool. As brilliant as you are, you haven't learned a damn thing, have you? Gryphons don't really understand these moral qualms— or perhaps that's merely a product of the savage nature of the times from which Skan hails.

Speaking of which...

"Where were you, before coming here? I don't mean where, or here-here, I mean— what was happening, before? What did Caldera interrupt, to bring you to this world?"