"I'm... sorry about the world ending. That must have been--" James shakes his head after a moment, because he doesn't know what that must have been like. It just had to have been difficult in a way he can't imagine though he's heard about it in detail from Elena before.

"It was good people." Even if he isn't close to them anymore and things got complicated, they are good people. "I try not to get close to psychopaths."

It's a quiet joke with a tiny smirk on his face.