[ ...well. Her reaction confirms one thing he'd been curious about. The look at his shoulder, in particular, tells him quite a bit.

For now, though, he simply brushes it off. ]

An excellent question. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for it.

[ There is no Holy Grail here, and besides that, this isn't the afterlife he technically belongs to. (If it is indeed that, of course.) ]

Did anything significant happen before you arrived here?