The moment Joker finds himself in an alleyway, his smile flips on like a searchlight.

A teleporting Skippy. You don't say...

Even the frown Hythie's giving him doesn't diminish Joker's obvious pleasure at this new revelation. Now this, see, this is precisely the sort of friend he's been looking for.

And because a man who set out to teach a stranger about compassion seems unlikely to respond favorably to an answer like I just sprayed him with a little face-eating acid, Joker does what he does best: he lies.

"Oh, I just blinded him for a moment or two. Which, admittedly, is a bit on-the-nose, considering his crime, but..." He shrugs. "If I'd known you could do that little trick, I wouldn't have bothered."

Then, with a slight frown: "He didn't hurt you, did he?"