Even though Billy didn't know what an etienne was - he barely knew what a crawfish was! - he didn't need Scott's ability to see that something had shifted a little bit in the other. Did everyone besides him have a horrible childhood? Billy would never say such a thing out loud, but all he had to go on were his own experiences, but no one seemed to be able to align themselves with him, no matter how hard he tried. It wasn't anyone's fault, just...it just couldn't be easy, ever.
"I've only been fishing." Fish be in the word of the day. "What kind of danger was there? Quicksand or strong currents?" Billy wasn't purposefully meaning to be ignorant, but at least he didn't just agree like he had any idea what Remy was talking about. When it came to others' histories and Billy's? He was always left with the feeling of being pretty vanilla.