He'll totally take it as a compliment, too, with an incline of his head. "I would just chalk it up to doing as I am accustomed to do, but I suppose you have a point."

He itches to finally break his silence and tell Rosinante something of what happened with Dr. Solis, but now's not quite the time. There's a lot going on. But it comes to mind, if only because he wants to talk about something else besides memories - and also bolster his efforts toward befriending this intelligent fellow by offering him a scrap that no one else is privy to...

Ah, maybe later. When things calm down and the ferry comes. "Then, have you learned anything enlightening by finding this stone? Or am I to simply cast it aside, and focus on keeping the ones brought to me that feature my wife? You may look at one of those if you like. I have no pictures of her otherwise, as some do with their phones."