"It's my mother's influence," Mathias admits with a small, embarrassed smile. This is easy to speak of, although he knows back home his parents have lost both their children in the worst possible way. They'll never receive any sort of closure, they'll never know where Henrich and Mathias went and they'll never get any kind of peace.

"She was very..." He trails off and gestures with his free hand, looking for the word he wants. "Concerned, I think is the word. Concerned with how the public perceived us. All of us, even her children, even when we were quite young."