"Can you call it... them? Over?" he asks automatically, tilting his head. He's going to pluck at every single thing she offers him here at this point. If he can actually meet a monster before it shows up, then that's useful and might tell him more then Fen ever has.

Still, that's not exactly the reason he came up here, so he'll clarify, "I didn't intend it as small talk if you want to answer the question. But uh, I do have other questions. About today. Do you know what happened?"