"You go to UCLA?" That definitely wasn't Empire State University, but he guessed it made sense since they were here now. In typical fashion he couldn't help what popped into his head next. "School... I have to go back to school before I miss too much and have to start over."
Ben was just the kind of kid who worried about things like that, even when he'd been transplanted to an alternate dimension. God forbid he fall behind in Chemistry.
"I won't say anything. If I said too much you could rip the space-time continuum anyway and we might never get home," he said with a nod, not completely serious. But yes, he was a nerd who maybe watched far too much Sci-fi Channel on the weekends. "You're supposed to be really careful about that stuff." Duh.
"So, do you work for these guys?" Ben asked, gesturing to the rest of the hotel.