Connor follows April's gesture to the unfamiliar star, and looks distant and thoughtful while they talk, but he's not oblivious to the conversation. He's not oblivious to Kairos creeping lapwards, either, but he has the common sense to keep her from going too far in public.

"...Katrina...? That's... when there was the flood?" He's been pretty out of touch, for a while now. He got his news from discarded newspapers and TV's in storefront windows. It's hard to keep up current events when you're focused on scrounging up a way to eat something each day. Not that Connor's been good on keeping up with current events for a few decades, really.
He adds in a mutter, "The last time I had a farm was before the stock market crash..."