"He likes being the center of attention." Which generally wasn't the best of things for a cryptid who should have been hiding from humans, but it was less dangerous here than it would have been back in Columbus.
"Oh yeah," he said, nodding. "That land mass stuck to the City across the bridge? It used to be a separate world or something, and I got sucked from my home to there a few months. It was amazing." He grinned nostalgically, eyes going faraway behind his glasses as he remembered tracking wild dinosaur behavior patterns. Good times.
"Sure, Peggy," he said, maybe a bit too eager. "Sorry. I just get really excited about reptiles. And dinosaurs, which aren't reptiles. Most of what we think of as dinosaurs aren't technically dinosaurs by taxonomic definition, really, and sauropsids would be more accurate, but..." He shook his head. "Do you want to go now?"