Sam sees the expression fall, and... pauses. Sam knows that expression all too well, for very different reasons.

Yes, it's gone. It's all gone. Thanks to greed, and railroads, and science. Time marches on and all that.

"I missed my chance by about two years. We went back when it was a matter of life and death... which is how I know for sure it's gone. My Dad is still around, startin' to show his age a bit... or some age. After, way he figures it, three-hundred years, he's lookin' about like a guy in his late forties, fifties maybe. My mom died not long after I was born."