"Wouldn't've offered if I wasn't." He walks with her over to the bench and takes a seat.

It takes a few false starts, but the whole story finally comes out: about the two nonhuman record execs kidnapping people and brainwashing them to play music; about music magic, and why the execs want it, and how it figures into their universe-ending race to the finish; about receiving the request for help and accepting it; about Gold and Silver; about trying to stay off the execs' radar and still doing what he can to help, and it never really being enough. "An' there's supposed to be time travel involved in this too, so I should be comin' back at the same moment I left. So if I'm suddenly real tired one day, you know what happened." He pauses to consider the flip side of that circumstance. "An' if I suddenly disappear one day...well, you know what happened."

It's fairly obvious in his tune that his time in Vista hasn't done him much good. He's stressed, he's exhausted, he's afraid, and he's been trying to handle it all on his own for far too long, which has worn him down something awful.