"You make it sound like I should know." He shakes his head, but considers this. "In a way, though, it wouldn't surprise me. As we've concluded before, all things are a bit different here, in lack of a stronger word."

Cooper listens carefully, with a frown of concentration marking his forehead just a little. Abstract thinking wasn't unfamiliar to him, of course, but you still needed a bit of focus discussing these things.

"You seem to know what you're talking about", he states, spinning the coffee cup in his hands slowly. "Is this what you think, or what you know?"

He ignores the comment about her brother, for now.