'Ouch,' is the first thing he thinks about that response. Having your mystery kid actually be here...well, that's gotta add a whole new level of stress to things. And here he was thinking it was more of a theoretical, back in whatever verse he was dreaming about kind of thing. Secondly, he considers that having two people that supposedly knew each other with such a close bond in this parallel world would be an excellent source for accumulating data. Maybe see how it all ties together.

But, those two thoughts leave his focus fairly quickly. Mostly because he's not really sure how to take Greg's reaction there, at the end. Maybe he's misunderstanding, but he's not really sure. What had been a searching expression - one part curious, one part concerned - goes cold.

He looks away. Despite how self deprecating he's been...he guesses there are limits.

"You know I'm not a serial killer, right?" he says after a moment, his tone much the same as usual but somehow entirely without humour. "That wasn't actually the end note of this little morality tale."