"You can." She offers, watching him silently as he considers her words. He reacts exactly as she expected him to, and he asks the important questions followed by a silly philosophical one.

"I hope you find out when they arrive. Us is everyone. The monsters, the companions, the knights, the princess, me." She casually answers, settling her hands behind her to recline in place to answer the last two.

"The reminder of the first year, and is anything real?" Her smirk widens just slightly as she cracks the joke, watching for when he inevitably loses his mind about it. She waits just long enough to add:

"Was it real to you?"