He nodded to her, smiling a bit still. "It sounds like I will have a lot to learn. Thank you for helping me." She was being rather remarkably helpful, and he was grateful. The more help he got now, the less stress later, and the less chance the Other Guy would show up. Better for all.
"You do understand. Thank you." He smiled softly. "My own is similar. When I get mad, or stressed out, things happen, and people get hurt. Sometimes, now, I can control it, to guide it, but all too often, it happens when I don't want it to. So i try to avoid stress as much as possible." His smile widened. "Something you are helping with, so I am rather grateful for that."
Normally he was less expressive, but she had brought out a sort of giddiness in him, and he was glad to see it. He had long ago thought it gone.
"Again, thanks." He blinked. "So, people are real, but fictional. So... does this place make fictional people real, or does this place make fictional accounts of real people's lives before bringing them here?" It was a valid question to him.