[He blinked and then looked up at Lyle. His response was a little shaky, but he got it out.]
Y-yes.
[He was just going to stop talking now. Better not to dwell on topics that contributed to the reason he was here in the first place.
He looked back at his cards, focusing on that for a moment before drawing a card. Not immediately seeing a pattern, he put a different card down on the discard pile.]