[........ uh. Yeah. About that. Up till now, he's reacted mostly as he usually does, not really thinking about who he's talking to... but he can't really just bluntly inform a tiny girl that she's all alone here. Even he's not that much of an ass.]
Because... this is a different world, okay? That means that when you arrive here, sometimes stuff happens in the in-between, so you end up getting here not at the same time with the one you were with before. So Simon is just-- uh, late. Yeah.