"Oh, no," he groans a second time -- but now it's more like a sputtering laugh of sympathy. With Patty so cheerful about it and with everybody obviously being okay, he doesn't feel too bad about laughing. "Poor Vib. Poor Alexei! But, but yeah, I guess if all that can happen and he can still get so good at it to make something like that... then yeah! I'm already better at keeping things outta my head than I was, y'know? Maybe I'd be messed up even worse right now if I'd never started practicing or anything."

He blows his nose one more time. HONK. (Sniff.)

"What's your name? Sorry I didn't tell you mine. I'm Radar."