And amazingly, Elphaba picked up his actual sympathy--well, at least the fact that he wasn't actually trying to insult her. Again, she was surprised, for the briefest of moments, that somebody was kind. Although Tonks was friendly, and there was the young man she'd met while doing laundry at the apartment.
Maybe this place wasn't quite so bad.
"No," she admitted, a ghost of a smile appearing. (Why? Who knew!) "Not...very much at all. Freezers, automobiles, computers, it's all beyond me." Interesting. He'd picked up that she wasn't from this world.