He still didn't clue in to what she was talking about. Aluminum, he knew, but not as a... foil, whatever she meant by that. He wondered if she meant wearing sheets of it over her head like a hat, and wondered why that was supposed to keep your thoughts safe from readers like River, but decided that was another thing that he just wasn't going to get about her time.
"Ain't gonna argue with you there," he said with a shrug of his shoulders. "She takes some gettin' used to, very least." And he was of the mind that she was easier to handle when her brother was around, and wondered if - in this situation - if he was supposed to step up and be her... sitter? As if she needed one. Companion. Keeper of Her Attention. That, she needed desperately.
"It mandatory that we get one?" he asked with a raised eyebrow when she asked about his job situation. He gave it some thought only now that she'd mentioned it. He did need something to do, and he supposed it wouldn't be too rough to head into town and look around - see what he was capable of in this world. "Ain't got'n yet. You find something?"