"I dunno, kelp's pretty boring and normal." But maybe that was because he'd seen an awful lot of kelp in his lifetime. He'd probably be just as blasé about whale skeletons and sunken ships, but it hadn't occurred to him just how much of a subjective thing 'weird' could really be. As it was, with the pale, ethereal being before him, he'd not continue on for a moment, not until he discerned something first.

It was only a momentary shift, blatant enough for one watching. The whites of the young man's eyes would, with a single blink, seem to fall away, the iris devoured instantly by an ever growing pupil until nothing but pitch black remained. Within the void, for that single moment, a thousand blue white lights like a sea of stars gleamed and shimmered, the expanse of space in an eye socket.

Gone again with the next blink, his head tilting this way and that. Well... Not precisely what he was used to. Not necessarily related...

Not totally alien, not the same, but still not one of them. It didn't diminish interest, but it did do well to keep it casual.

"But like, everything's a real big answer. Kinda like a not-answer, you got an answer answer?"