A raised brow at ‘human-level intelligence.’ He makes a note to ask about that later, but first:

“A large cruise ship. It’s a bit like a floating city, but there were only about seventy of us. We were on an empty sea, and never made land to any real place. There were no animals, and every plant was as good as plastic, and each day was the same hot summer day, down to the same clouds in the sky.”

All this, while he distracts himself with doting on Ghost. He looks very pleased.