It earns a smile, soft and weathered.

"Well, I don't know. I like old-fashioned, myself."

Understatement of the year, really. Something of a self taught scholar, he's made up for his lack of education through quelling a thousand restless nights buried in a book.

"That's a harsh judgment on you, though. Everyone's worlds are so different. There are people here from space. Blows my mind."