Nice to meet you too. I'm Maes Hughes. I'll admit, I didn't expect to find someone else in a similar position...it's difficult, but if you want any advice I'll do my best to help.

[Mostly he just tried not to think about it. The difficult part came in the fact that everyone and everything seemed bent on reminding him of that fact. It didn't help that he was a very analytical man.

Maes shakes his had all the same though.]