Well, that went better than he had probably had any reason to hope. Not wonderfully, by any means, but still. It still sucked but, hey, it could have been worse.
Slowly, he started moving again, turning so he was walking backwards, watching her, carefully hopeful. "It's not all that bad, really. Promise. I mean, nobody's said anything about any of us needing to pay for our rooms yet, anyway, and there are a bunch of us around, like I said, and I'd...bet you'll recognize at least one person. Sort of. Unless your version of Charles Xavier is, I don't know, a robot or something?" With a blink, Sean laughed at himself there. "Man, actually, that'd just be-- I bet there's a universe out there somewhere that it's true!"