[He's actually...not expecting the guy to be friendly or follow along, but admittedly, he wouldn't mind the company. And there's something dreadfully fascinating about how--he doesn't want to use the term monsters, but there's no other way around it--they functioned, how they looked, how this all worked. If you took out the existential horror and all that.

He definitely thinks this gargoyle fellow is taking it pretty easy, and Jacob wonders if one day he himself will just...think of this as nothing. Getting used to it was not something he was looking forward to.]

Nah. I'm actually a really high-tech robot.

[Please, man.]

You here to point out the obvious, or...? [He's really much nicer than this, at least when he's not in the middle of dealing with some of his worst fears about magic come to life.]