The mage had been bracing himself for her to pounce and gladly, she hadn't. He didn't yet have the energy for that sort of exuberance. Thankfully he didn't have to deal with it and she seemed to remember that about him. Or she was tired from her fight, too, one or the other he supposed worked in his favour. He had it explained, about the mark and it did make sense with the other things he had seen around the town when he decided to take his all day train ride after getting his things.

His eyebrow raised hearing how long she'd been here. "Looks like nothing we're not used to living in. It just seems like more of Alternia with a fifty fifty chance." One that he saw she didn't have the benefit of coming out on top of. Sollux also didn't want to let on how good it was to see another troll here, it was a huge place and if she'd been there that long. "Then you'd know if anyone else made it here." It wasn't a question, not phrased as a question at least, but he was definitely asking her.