"Hah! People fear what they can't explain," he nods at her, "and when you look as different as me, well, who knows what you're capable of." And she's right, there's very little chance of him exploding. If he was going to do it, he would have by now with the amount of times he's been shot at in the past.

But her next comment confuses him some. He cocks his head slightly to the side as he answers, "And those are things that you normally notice?" A matrix--he doesn't know what that is, but astral planes... He's read about those in fiction and historical pieces before. It's just not something he usually has to worry about. Still, people have come to him with weirder concepts so he's not going to make a judgement.