He chuckled, though he also made a note that she seemed familiar with the displacement. Perhaps she was another Offworld refuge, like him. He did feel a slight pang, wondering if Lily was indeed lost, but she'd followed him once before. Maybe she was tucked away in his apartment somewhere.
As they walked he listened to the story, and then paused. "Are you human, then, or...? Pardon, I know it's probably an odd question to hear." It felt odd too, to ask, even as used to magic and creatures as he'd gotten in the dead world. There was something about asking a girl on the sidewalk of a modern city that made it feel very out of place.
As they reached the shop he held the door open for her, welcoming her in. It was a fairly typical music store. Bright lights, instruments of all kinds lining the walls. He noted a few more he didn't recognize, but many more he did. Say, the full selection of guitars on the back wall.