[He'll just keep it to himself forever, thanks. He doesn't have time for anything else.]

Sort of...? It's working with energy that's already inside you, right?

[He's trying to keep up. Really. But it's confusing and nothing like anything he knows about.]

I could just mean surviving school. You should see my Spanish teacher. Senor Uhl can be pretty intimidating. [And any other day he'd leave it at that. But they were in a weird town that was missing its colour and they're from all different worlds and apparently he can understand...was it Chinese? Well, anyway. He can understand it and he shouldn't be able to.

Everything is screwed up, basically. So he sighed.] It's a really long story.