"What was going on back home?" He asked, curious about what other people had been dealing with. He didn't really want to believe in the idea of different universes but he'd seen proof that there was more than whatever it was he was comfortable believing. The clown had come from somewhere, after all, and then there was guy running around here with the glow sword who'd tried to rearrange Richie's face. "As much as I want to deny that idea, this Tony friend of yours might know more than me." He'd been there longer, right? He'd probably met more people and managed to make that call. Eddie, of course, had no way of knowing that Tony had more than experience to back him up. He'd never heard of the man.
Derry hadn't seemed very murdery either. It had always been a little weird, now that Eddie really thought about it, but he'd always assumed that was just a small town thing. He'd convinced himself that Derry wasn't really creepy. Sure, the adults had all been pretty apathetic towards the amount of children that were going missing and there was, occasionally, this chill in the air that you never seemed to be able to shake once it settled into your bones but it was nothing. "A major improvement." He agreed.
While Starklandia wasn't very murdery (yet) there was a chance the doors were. A chance they could open up and reveal that this entire thing was just some elaborate hallucination. They could open up to anything, right? Maybe he shouldn't. Maybe he should stay here, go back to the house he shared with Richie and continue to pretend he was fine. That he didn't want to scream sometimes. He could still do that, Natasha wasn't forcing him to go. She was just giving him the option. "Sure, what the hell. I even have a weapon if anything happens."
Richie probably wouldn't like the idea of him going out to some possibly creepy doors in a possibly creepy house but he didn't have to know. He smiled when she laughed. "He'll probably do it anyway once he figures out it pisses me off." And he should be annoyed but his smile turned fond, damn near loving, as he thought about the other. That would, at least, be familiar. It would be better than any of these big things that stood between them.